Social Security Administration Says It Corrected Nearly 50 Million Records in Fraud-Prevention Effort

The Social Security Administration said it has corrected nearly 50 million Social Security Number records, which it calls the largest correction of vital records in the agency's 91-year history. The agency says the updates fixed missing or inaccurate information, including adding millions of missing death records and citizenship status updates. The effort is meant to prevent fraud. The agency said it is working to correct millions more records and described the project as the first of this scale it has undertaken.

Left-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing; alternative/independent and right-leaning outlets had. MarketWatch, the alternative source, leads with the agency's statement that it fixed millions of records and still has millions more to fix. Right-leaning outlets focus on the size and record-setting nature of the cleanup. The Blaze credits the Trump administration and cites an agency press release, while Fox Business stresses the near-50-million figure and the death and citizenship data. All coverage relies on the agency's own statements.