SSA announced today it has corrected nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers—roughly 50 million out of 330 million U.S. citizen records and nearly 390 million total. The agency added 17 million missing dates of death using internal systems and State Department data, updated 25 million records missing citizenship information via DHS SAVE, and is correcting another 8.5 million with inaccurate citizenship status. Commissioner Frank Bisignano called it the first effort of this scale and said accurate SSN records prevent fraud across federal programs.
Rooting out fraud starts with accurate records.
Under @POTUS leadership, SSA has corrected nearly 15% of active SSNs, the most comprehensive SSN record clean-up in agency history:
✅ 17M missing dates of death added
✅ 25M records with missing citizenship info updated
🔄 8.5M…— Social Security (@SocialSecurity) October 20, 2026
BREAKING: The Social Security Administration confirms to @FoxNews that it has just undertaken its largest cleanup of Social Security Numbers in the agency's 91-year history, correcting nearly 15% of all U.S. citizen SSNs (roughly 50 million out of 330 million). The changes… pic.twitter.com/9R0le3HF8c
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 20, 2026
https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2026-10-20.html
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