Social Security Administration announces new requirement for ID verification

[Swordsmyth]

The Social Security Administration announced on Monday that recipients will now need to verify their identity in person or online, but no longer will accept verification over the phone.


This change applies to anyone looking to acquire benefits and changes in direct deposits.


“The Social Security Administration (SSA) is taking proactive steps to enhance the security of its services by implementing stronger identity verification procedures. The updated measures will further safeguard Social Security records and benefits against fraudulent activity. Over the next two weeks, SSA will carefully transition to stronger identity proofing procedures for both benefit claims and direct deposit changes,” a blog post on the agency’s website reads.


“SSA will permit individuals who do not or cannot use the agency’s online Social Security  services to start their claim for benefits on the telephone. However, the claim cannot be completed until the individual’s identity is verified in person,” the post continues.


“The agency therefore recommends calling to request an in-person appointment to begin and complete the claim in one interaction.”

More at: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/0...-new-requirement-for-id-verification-1530338/

 

[idiom]

The change may require foot traffic to Social Security offices nationwide to increase by about 75,000 to 85,000 more in-person visitors per week, according to reports on an internal Social Security Administration memo.


the Department of Government Efficiency, an unofficial government entity within the Trump administration, has disclosed it plans to close about 47 Social Security offices

Genius.

 

[oyarde]

Seems fine to me but I seriously doubt offices around ere are staffed to do it

 

[idiom]

Seems fine to me but I seriously doubt offices around ere are staffed to do it

That's the point. If the offices aren't staffed, the elderly can't be served and get ripped off and die. Much Integrity. Great Country.

 

[Swordsmyth]

That's the point. If the offices aren't staffed, the elderly can't be served and get ripped off and die. Much Integrity. Great Country.

False, they can prove their identity over the internet.
The whole nation is getting ripped off because proof of identity/life has been deliberately neglected to facilitate both financial and election fraud.
And you can just drop your mask of being a libertarian, you are clearly a leftist.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Genius.

As if leftist scare estimates have ever had any validity.