Social Security Administration Corrects Millions of Database Records

The Social Security Administration updated nearly 60 million database records to fix citizenship and death data.

The Social Security Administration corrected nearly 60 million records within its database to update citizenship status and add missing death dates. This nationwide data cleanup affects roughly 15% of all active Social Security numbers stored by the federal agency. Officials utilized tools like the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements service to verify and refine these files.

• The scaleThe agency updated records across a database containing nearly 390 million total files.
• The methodOfficials partially used the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements service to execute the corrections.