You don't ever want to find yourself on the Social Security "death master file." It's a financial death and a sort of living hell where you spend years trying to convince a hobbled bureaucracy that ...

Earlier this month, the Trump administration escalated its assault on immigrants’ rights by reporting living people as “dead” in the Social Security Administration’s death master file, even though ...

Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over ...

It might be harder than you think to prove to the government you’re still alive. The issue has come front and center amid some moves by President Donald Trump and his administration. They’ve talked ...

Americans who had been wrongly declared dead after Elon Musk’s government-slashing force was granted access to the Social Security Administration’s databases are being forced to prove that they are ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...