Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

April 8, 2025 / 9:50 AM EDT


The Social Security Administration last week wrongly informed some recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the federal program that provides financial assistance to disabled Americans and low-income senior citizens, that they were no longer receiving benefits.

The agency's website informed some SSI recipients they are "currently not receiving payments," according to an April 7 letter from senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Kelly of Arizona to Social Security Administration Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek.

The payment history and all data about benefits for SSI recipients had also vanished, they wrote, adding that they received multiple reports from constituents about the error. "In my 50 years of work on Social Security and SSI, I have never heard of this happening before," said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, an advocacy group for the program, of the SSI error.

Chris Hubbard, whose 37-year-old disabled adult son relies on the program to pay for his group home, told CBS MoneyWatch she became aware of the problem on March 31, when people in a Facebook group for mothers of autistic children flagged the problem.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-doge-ssi-error-message-currently-not-receiving-payments/

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Link to Sen. Warren PRESS RELEASE - Warren, Wyden, Kelly Demand Answers on Reported Social Security Benefit Disruptions

Link to Senators Wyden, Warren, Kelly LETTER (PDF) - https://www.warren.senate.gov/download/warren-letter-to-dudek-re-ssi&download=1

[choie]

1. I really think they're trying to terrorize us.

n/t

[Irish_Dem]

4. Seems obvious this is the plan. Every day scare SS recipients.

No attempts to reassure us or tell us what is going on.

[slightlv]

6. They're doing a damned good job of it! n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. tRump thinks confusion is part of the solution. . . . nt

[Brenda]

3. Never ending nightmare

I'm very grateful for Sen Warren and Tim Walz and Cory Booker and a few others who are trying to stop this insanity.

But there needs to be LOUD AND ANGRY WORDS FROM FORMER PRESIDENTS, TOO!

[vapor2]

5. Well, f**k these doge goons

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and no one can tell me what right they have screwing with our SS. We DID NOT ELECT THEM OR ELON.

[angryxyouth]

7. Just went to the Social Security website

Just went to the Social Security website and the Home tab doesn’t take you anywhere and neither does Other Services tab. I had to hit the button to download forms, log out then log back in and they were the only thing on my screen. This was from my IPhone

[JJJ123]

8. Social Security Payments for April Not Being Received

Getting reports from different people who receive their SSA Direct Deposit Payment the Second Wednesday, that they are not receiving their payments for April on time. Recipients for various number of years, no change in address or bank or any other personal changes. Something is going on.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I literally just checked mine this morning as this is my SS week

and the deposit is there, thank goodness!

[JJJ123]

10. Update Info

Overnight apparently all that I have been in contact with have received their payments. Their bank accounts never showed anything pending, it was just there this morning. However, there are problems signing into their account for some. One having trouble even getting to the site. Another 2 when they try to sign in get the message that their info isn't recognized. One is going to try to create a new ID or whatever account. Are all old accounts being phased out? All had accounts prior to 2021. Thank you for the info you give on here.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. About a year or so ago, SS and OPM suggested people start exclusively using a "central" login option - Login.gov

https://www.login.gov/

(alternately people could use ID.me - https://www.id.me/)

They sent out a million emails about it.

I just started getting SS last year but had already created a Login.gov account when they started switching over to that instead of my logging directly into OPM for my federal annuity info. They then applied (linked) my Login.gov login info to my SS account and I was good to go.

(ETA - and for clarification, I DID have a different account that I had used for SS over the years but that was, I assume, phased out and replaced with my "Login.gov" account once I linked the Login.gov account to SS)

[Bengus81]

12. My deposit was in my account this morning. Second Wed of each month.......

So hang on people......

[elocs]

15. There are DUers here panicking when their check is always deposited in their account

and it's 12:01 so it's late. It arrived at 1:30 a.m.

[elocs]

14. Well, I received my April money on the 1st when it wasn't due until the 3rd.

When there is something really wrong with SSA and getting your money, there will be hundreds of people here at DU posting about it.

[yardwork]

13. These people are horrible!