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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Social Security Administration (SSA) today shared its significant progress to quickly implement the Social Security Fairness Act. Through March 4, 2025, SSA has already paid 1,127,723 people more than $7.5 billion in retroactive payments. The retroactive payments are the result of the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Social Security Administration (SSA) continues to make good on President Trump’s promise to protect American taxpayers from unnecessary spending while continuing to ensure it delivers on its mission. “For too long, SSA has operated on autopilot,” said Lee Dudek, Acting Commissioner of Social Security. “We have spent billions annually doing the

WASHINGTON – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (Mo.) released the following statement after President Trump signed an executive order directing the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services to implement and enforce President Trump’s health care price transparency regulations: “Over the last four years, soaring health care costs driven by out-of-control

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Social Security Administration has announced the closing of a component within the agency, the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. Employees in this office will be put on administrative leave effective today. “Our focus is supporting President Trump’s priorities, which include streamlining functions and prioritizing essential work,” said Lee Dudek,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Social Security Administration has announced it is immediately beginning to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). These provisions reduced or eliminated the Social Security benefits for over 3.2 million people

WASHINGTON, D.C – The Social Security Administration has announced the closing of a component within the agency, the Office of Transformation. Employees in this office will be put on administrative leave effective immediately. “President Trump has mandated the Federal government eliminate wasteful and inefficient offices and the Office of Transformation was a prime example,” said

WASHINGTON. D.C. – The Social Security Administration has announced the termination of their Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) cooperative agreements. This action supports the President’s Executive Order, Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing. “Terminating our RDRC cooperative agreements aligns with President Trump’s priorities to end fraudulent and wasteful initiatives and contracts,” said

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Social Security Administration is announcing an organizational realignment of the functions provided by its Office of Analytics, Review, and Oversight (OARO). These functions remain critical to ensure the programs Social Security administers are of high quality and effective, that SSA uses the latest tools to recommend opportunities to improve the programs,