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#Social Security

The federal social insurance program providing retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. Incidents involve threats to Social Security data integrity, unauthorized access to records, and attempts to use SSA data for immigration enforcement.

2 incidents

Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power

DOGE Employees Matched Social Security Data with Voter Rolls to Pursue Voter Fraud Claims

DOGE employees at SSA secretly worked with a political advocacy group to match Social Security data with voter rolls to find 'evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results.' A signed data-sharing agreement and Hatch Act referrals followed. A whistleblower alleged DOGE copied 300+ million Americans' records into an unsecured virtual database.