"I want to turn it off and let the courts figure out how they want to run a federal agency," acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek actually said.

The head of the U.S. Social Security Administration has backed down from "shutting down the agency" after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire Elon Musk's access to agency information.

The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner wants to shut down the SSA temporarily following a judge’s order to halt access to the agency’s data by staff of the entity known as the Department of Government Efficiency,

In an effort to limit fraudulent claims, the Social Security Administration will impose tighter identity-proofing measures that will require millions of recipients and applicants to visit agency field offices rather than interact with the agency over the phone.

The last Social Security payment for March will be on its way in just a couple of days. When you receive your check depends on a couple of different factors that we'll break down below. Thanks to the COLA increase,