Social Security Administration

The Social Security Administration won’t announce its next annual cost-of-living adjustment until October, but there is a reliable way to predict the number ahead of time.  The Senior Citizens League is a nonpartisan advocacy group for older Americans and has a history of accurately forecasting the annual change. The group estimates that the Social Security COLA for 2021 could...

The Social Security Administration’s list of the top baby names of the decade is out. The SSA’s list comes from analyzing the names of the more than 35 million babies born between 2010 and 2018. It ranks the 200 most popular names for both boys and girls.

Millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase from Social Security in 2020, an uptick with potential political consequences in an election year when Democrats are pushing more generous inflation protection. The increase amounts to $24 a month for the average retired worker, according to estimates released Thursday by the Social Security Administration. Following a significant boost this...

Authorities say a Georgia couple, posing as Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, bilked six victims out of $16,000 in gift cards in a telephone fraud scam.

Apparent social security scammers have been making the rounds and calling people warning them that their accounts are about to be suspended. Experts say dn’t fall for it.

Social Security scam calls have been going around and scam experts advise people to always hang up or simply not answer. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2019.

Federal agencies responsible for safeguarding millions of Americans’ security, public safety and personal data have failed to apply even basic defenses to cyberattacks, Senate investigators said Tuesday. The alarming warning comes after a 10-month review of 10 years of inspector general’s reports by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, NBC News reported.

Yeti persisted. An Oregon man intent on proving the existence of the mythical creatures known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman and Yeti in 1976 managed to get the FBI to test hair and tissue samples that he believed might help his case, according to newly released records. “The FBI has analyzed hair in connection with the search for Sasquatch,...

For the 319 baby girls born and named Lyanna last year, “Game of Thrones” will never end. More parents are bestowing “Game of Thrones” character names on their children than ever, according to Social Security Administration data published Friday. Excluding the Jons and Jaimes, more than 4,500 children were given such names in 2018, up from the 3,800-plus in 2017...

The Thousand Oaks Police Department warns residents of phone scammers who claim to be from the Social Security Administration and seek their personal information, threatening to block their social security number and seize their bank accounts.

The Trump Organization, responding to claims that some of its workers were in the U.S. illegally, said on Wednesday that it will use the E-Verify electronic system at all of its properties to check employees’ documentation. A lawyer for a dozen immigrant workers at the Trump National Golf Club in New York’s Westchester County said recently that they were fired...

In an exclusive interview, one of the victims in the horrifying 2011 “basement of horrors” tells NBC10 how desperate she and the other victims became during their captivity in a Philadelphia row home.

Matt Raible, paralyzed by a mortar round in Vietnam, is working with his third service dog, paired with the veteran through nonprofit group Canine Companions for Independence (CCI). He told CNBC that each dog helped him navigate life after war in new and meaningful ways. The group provides assistance dogs free of charge to adults, children and veterans like Raible,...

Civil rights groups sued Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor who also oversees elections in the state, saying the method his office uses to verify new voter registrations is discriminatory. The lawsuit, filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, comes after the revelation that thousands of applications remain in a pending status...

Good news for those who are collecting Social Security: Your monthly checks likely will be bigger next year. The Social Security Administration generally announces its cost-of-living adjustment in October. The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan organization, keeps an ongoing estimate of what that increase could be. The latest estimate — excluding September — pegs that increase at 2.8 percent. For...

A U.S. judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by the state of California accusing the Trump administration of illegally reneging on an Obama-era commitment to quickly forgive the loans of students defrauded by the Corinthian for-profit college chain.

In a bipartisan meeting with members of Congress, President Donald Trump made false and misleading claims about his predecessors’ actions on gun control legislation and shootings in “gun-free zones.”

California officials plan to crack down on thousands of “dead” drivers who still hold disabled parking placards.

Being misidentified by the federal government was as simple as a spelling mistake for this Sherman Oaks woman, whose Social Security benefits were being paid to another woman with a similar name, while she received that woman’s Medicare bills. Randy Mac the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, November 10, 2017.

Authorities in Florida say the heirs of a man who hid his wife’s body in a freezer so he could continue collecting her Social Security benefits have repaid the government for the money he took.