Social Security Administration Says It Corrected Records for Nearly 15% of Active Social Security Numbers
Photo: NewsNationThe Social Security Administration said Tuesday it has corrected records for nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers, adding missing death and citizenship data in what it called its largest database cleanup in 91 years. The agency said the work touched about 330 million U.S. citizens and nearly 390 million records, including 17 million added dates of death and about 25 million citizenship updates made using the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE service. Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano said another 8.5 million records with inaccurate citizenship status are still being corrected, and the agency said new internal controls should prevent manual-entry errors.
Left-leaning outlets had not reported the story at the time of writing; alternative and right-leaning outlets had. NewsNation, the alternative source, notes the announcement did not say how many corrections involved improper payments or suspected fraud. Breitbart leads with the figures, ties the effort to the Trump administration's anti-fraud drive, and quotes Bisignano. Fox Business covers a different SSA item: newborn card inserts about a $1,000 Trump Account contribution, citing SSA press officer Barton Mackey.
How the sides differ Left sources have not covered it; alternative sources stress the unanswered fraud question, while right sources stress the cleanup figures and anti-fraud aims, with one right outlet covering newborn Trump Account inserts.
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Not covering this story. None of the left-leaning outlets Crosswire tracks has reported it yet. What one side leaves out can be as telling as what the others report.
NewsNation leads with the claim of tens of millions of corrected records and points out that the announcement did not say how many were tied to improper payments or suspected fraud.
- Fox BusinessEXCLUSIVE: Social Security begins sending new $1,000 Trump Account notices to parents of newborns
Breitbart leads with the percentages and record counts, presents them as part of the administration's anti-fraud push, and quotes Bisignano. Fox Business instead covers newborn Social Security card inserts about Trump Accounts, citing SSA's Barton Mackey.