Social Security Cuts Phone Services in Bid to Address Fraud

The Social Security Administration will implement cuts to phone service in an effort to combat fraud, its acting commissioner [Leland Dudek] said Tuesday…. The pressure to tighten fraud controls came from DOGE, a former SSA official told Axios. A second former official, who recently worked in operations and spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation, said the money it would cost to implement these changes would dwarf any savings that would come from cracking down on identity fraud.