SSA and Treasury Department officials underscored that neither agency will ever request payment to expedite or set up benefits. Individuals facing hardship or without access to digital payment methods ...

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Keep a weathered eye on those pop-up messages; it might be scammers looking to phish you out of your retirement money.

Phishing scams have been on the rise for quite some time and now there is a new target: retirees. A Social Security ...

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My email has a spam filter but the Social Security scam keeps getting through. I know not to click on it but I wonder how this is happening. Is it still happening to others ? It looks so real ! Answer ...

• Be wary of phishing scams: The IRS will never contact you by phone or email asking for personal information to process your refund.

According to the SSA, real Social Security texts never threaten the recipient or request payment or personal information; any texts that do so are scams.