The Kansas City, Missouri, metropolitan area has long been a regional hub for the federal government, and the pain from the ...

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Australians began to stay away from Hong Kong in 2019, when protestors staged sit-ins at the airport, clashing with riot police and shouting "Free Hong Kong!" Demonstrations against Beijing's erosion ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced in March that it would no longer allow people to verify their identity over the phone. Instead, recipients would have to use the “my Social ...

Social Security Administration officials initially said people could no longer apply for benefits over the phone starting Monday, April 14 due to high fraud risks. However, an internal memo ...

With less than a week to go before a deadline that the Social Security Administration set to end phone support for certain customer service needs, the agency braked and hit reverse. The ...

In other immigration news, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says it’s started screening social media activity of immigrants for evidence of so-called antisemitic activity that could be ...

CBPP's director of Social Security and disability policy. She also highlighted that SSA appointments are hard to obtain, with phone wait times averaging two and a half hours and in-person ...

The Social Security Administration said Wednesday that all claims can continue to be conducted on the phone — a reversal from its effort to move identity-verification for some services to online ...

HONG KONG, China — A Hong Kong social worker who called on police to exercise restraint during democracy protests was jailed for more than three years on Wednesday after being found guilty of ...