The Social Security Administration scrapped the Department of Government Efficiency’s plans to stop providing service to ...

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said in a statement that the phone policy and ...

The agency had been considering requiring most applicants for Social Security to travel to an office to register in person.

The shift amounts to a wholesale retreat by Musk’s team and the Social Security leadership in their bid to dramatically curtail telephone access to services.