{"id":7715,"date":"2025-03-27T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/social-security-admin-partially-walks-back-plans-for-id-verification-cutting-phone-services\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:20:40","slug":"social-security-admin-partially-walks-back-plans-for-id-verification-cutting-phone-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/social-security-admin-partially-walks-back-plans-for-id-verification-cutting-phone-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Social security admin partially walks back plans for ID verification, cutting phone services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration said Wednesday it would modify it&rsquo;s proposed new policy by foregoing an in person requirement to verify the identity of account holders with Disability Insurance, Medicare and SSI Applications. &ldquo;We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others, and we are updating our policy to provide better customer service to&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5216799-social-security-admin-partially-walks-back-plans-id-verification\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration said Wednesday it would modify it&rsquo;s proposed new policy by foregoing an in person requirement to verify the identity of account holders with Disability Insurance, Medicare and SSI Applications. &ldquo;We have listened to our customers, Congress, advocates, and others, and we are updating our policy to provide better customer service to&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}