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“To prevent them from receiving any payments,” the White House told me, the Social Security Administration moved their numbers into what the White House calls the “Ineligible Master File.”

The Trump administration is trying to degrade the Social Security Administration's ability to provide elderly and disabled Americans the benefits they're entitled to.

Elderly and disabled people — and those who care for them — are encountering a knot of bureaucratic hurdles and service disruptions after the Trump administration imposed a sweeping overhaul of the Social Security Administration system.

Answer: You typically need to be married for “one continuous year” before applying for a spousal benefit, according to the Social Security Administration.

At the National Academy panel, O’Malley warned that the Social Security Administration’s ability to provide effective customer service to beneficiaries and applicants faced collapse under Dudek and DOGE.