Beginning Saturday, Social Security recipients will no longer be served by workers from their local field offices.

Most retirees know the basics: claim early and get less, wait and get more. But a law signed in early 2025 rewrote rules that had quietly penalized millions of public workers for decades, and the effects are still working through the system in 2026.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) today announced the agency will transition the processing of medical Continuing Disability Reviews (CDRs) from State Disability

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is rolling out two new systems that will change how more than 1,200 field offices handle claims and schedule appointments. These systems come after the government organization's push toward closing local field ...