Social Security targets tech team for cuts at a time when systems are under strain

Social Security targets tech team for cuts at a time when systems are under strain

The Social Security Administration plans to slash its technology team by nearly one-third at a time when the agency’s complex and fragile computer systems are crashing more often.

Social Security demands that gay activist living with AIDS repay $200k in benefits

Paul Aguilar, an AIDS activist in San Francisco, has received a letter from the Social Security Administration demanding that he repay about $200,000 in disability benefits he has received.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Aguilar, 61, who is gay, started receiving Social Security disability benefits in 2005, after he was diagnosed with AIDS, he told The Bay Area Reporter. Since 2022…

My Views on Recent Changes at the Social Security Administration

DOGE has massively reorganized and downsized the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the first two months of the Trump Administration. These actions are unusual, as changes at SSA generally have been incremental and waited until a confirmed Commissioner takes office, surveys the organization’s needs and resources, and establishes priorities. In the recent reorganization, the transformation office was entirely eliminated and the analysis offi…

Social Security Administration says Georgia offices DOGE slated to close will stay open

The Social Security Administration said it is committed to providing service where people need help and that its local field offices "are no exception."

The rector of UNAM, Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, said that social security cannot be conceived as a fragmented set of measures subject to budgetary or administrative fluctuations. “It must be understood as an articulated system, solidarity and universal, capable of responding to the new socio-economic and cultural dynamics.” In inaugurating the First International Congress on Social Security, organized by the Faculty of Law (FD), in alliance with th…

Social Security and taxation benefits

You may be surprised to learn that Social Security income can be subject to income taxes. After all, Social Security taxes were taken from each and every paycheck up to the allowable taxable wage base ($176,100 in 2025) over your…