Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm [View all]
Source: CBS News
April 8, 2025 / 9:50 AM EDT
The Social Security Administration last week wrongly informed some recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the federal program that provides financial assistance to disabled Americans and low-income senior citizens, that they were no longer receiving benefits.
The agency's website informed some SSI recipients they are "currently not receiving payments," according to an April 7 letter from senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Kelly of Arizona to Social Security Administration Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek.
The payment history and all data about benefits for SSI recipients had also vanished, they wrote, adding that they received multiple reports from constituents about the error. "In my 50 years of work on Social Security and SSI, I have never heard of this happening before," said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, an advocacy group for the program, of the SSI error.
Chris Hubbard, whose 37-year-old disabled adult son relies on the program to pay for his group home, told CBS MoneyWatch she became aware of the problem on March 31, when people in a Facebook group for mothers of autistic children flagged the problem.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-doge-ssi-error-message-currently-not-receiving-payments/
Link to Sen. Warren PRESS RELEASE - Warren, Wyden, Kelly Demand Answers on Reported Social Security Benefit Disruptions
Link to Senators Wyden, Warren, Kelly LETTER (PDF) - https://www.warren.senate.gov/download/warren-letter-to-dudek-re-ssi&download=1
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