Social Security Administration

A North Texan said she needed help getting through to the federal government, specifically, the Social Security Administration. When she says she couldn’t get a correction to her Social Security card, she turned to the NBC 5 Responds and Telemundo 39 Responde teams.

A North Texan said she needed help getting through to the federal government, specifically, the Social Security Administration. When she says she couldn’t get a correction to her Social Security card, she turned to the NBC 5 Responds and Telemundo 39 Responde teams.

The names have been counted, literally. The Social Security Administration this week released the official list of the Top 5 Baby Names in Texas in 2021.

The Social Security Administration won’t announce its next annual cost-of-living adjustment until October, but there is a reliable way to predict the number ahead of time.  The Senior Citizens League is a nonpartisan advocacy group for older Americans and has a history of accurately forecasting the annual change. The group estimates that the Social Security COLA for 2021 could...

The Social Security Administration’s list of the top baby names of the decade is out. The SSA’s list comes from analyzing the names of the more than 35 million babies born between 2010 and 2018. It ranks the 200 most popular names for both boys and girls.

Millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase from Social Security in 2020, an uptick with potential political consequences in an election year when Democrats are pushing more generous inflation protection. The increase amounts to $24 a month for the average retired worker, according to estimates released Thursday by the Social Security Administration. Following a significant boost this...

Federal agencies responsible for safeguarding millions of Americans’ security, public safety and personal data have failed to apply even basic defenses to cyberattacks, Senate investigators said Tuesday. The alarming warning comes after a 10-month review of 10 years of inspector general’s reports by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, NBC News reported.

Yeti persisted. An Oregon man intent on proving the existence of the mythical creatures known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Abominable Snowman and Yeti in 1976 managed to get the FBI to test hair and tissue samples that he believed might help his case, according to newly released records. “The FBI has analyzed hair in connection with the search for Sasquatch,...

Earlier this month, the Social Security Administration released the most popular baby names in the U.S. but now the government agency is breaking it down by state.

For the 319 baby girls born and named Lyanna last year, “Game of Thrones” will never end. More parents are bestowing “Game of Thrones” character names on their children than ever, according to Social Security Administration data published Friday. Excluding the Jons and Jaimes, more than 4,500 children were given such names in 2018, up from the 3,800-plus in 2017...

NBC Responds/Telemundo Responde consumer units recover more than $30 million for consumers nationwide.

NBC 5 Responds is warning consumers to beware of a prevalent scheme known as the social security scam, which has cost people nearly $10 million.

NBC 5 Responds is warning consumers to beware of a prevalent scheme known as the social security scam, which has cost people nearly $10 million.

The Trump Organization, responding to claims that some of its workers were in the U.S. illegally, said on Wednesday that it will use the E-Verify electronic system at all of its properties to check employees’ documentation. A lawyer for a dozen immigrant workers at the Trump National Golf Club in New York’s Westchester County said recently that they were fired...

In an exclusive interview, one of the victims in the horrifying 2011 “basement of horrors” tells NBC10 how desperate she and the other victims became during their captivity in a Philadelphia row home.

Matt Raible, paralyzed by a mortar round in Vietnam, is working with his third service dog, paired with the veteran through nonprofit group Canine Companions for Independence (CCI). He told CNBC that each dog helped him navigate life after war in new and meaningful ways. The group provides assistance dogs free of charge to adults, children and veterans like Raible,...

Civil rights groups sued Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor who also oversees elections in the state, saying the method his office uses to verify new voter registrations is discriminatory. The lawsuit, filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, comes after the revelation that thousands of applications remain in a pending status...

Consumer Reporter Wayne Carter tells you what you need to know about your new card and how to protect your information.

Consumer Reporter Wayne Carter tells you what you need to know about your new card and how to protect your information.

Good news for those who are collecting Social Security: Your monthly checks likely will be bigger next year. The Social Security Administration generally announces its cost-of-living adjustment in October. The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan organization, keeps an ongoing estimate of what that increase could be. The latest estimate — excluding September — pegs that increase at 2.8 percent. For...