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 ...

Instead, the agency is flagging as “unverified” the Social Security numbers of thousands of people who lost their temporary legal status. By Alexandra Berzon Tara Siegel Bernard and Nicholas Nehamas ...

The Social Security Administration reportedly classified more than 6,000 living immigrants who were either on the terrorist watch list or with criminal records as dead under a directive by the Trump ...

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) ...