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[T]he Social Security Administration’s eVital electronic death registration initiative is still in its developmental phase. Agency officials refused to comment on it because “it is too early to discuss details,” said agency spokeswoman Kia Green, even though five years have passed since OMB announced that it would be part of its e-government effort.
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Government investigators hacked into the Internal Revenue Service computer system last year and gained access to Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from electronically filed tax returns, a congressional report said. "We had the ability to access virtually everything that was included in an electronically filed return," said the report's author, Bob Dacey, director of information security issues for the General Accounting Office. The IRS is not the only agency grappling with computer security problems, Dacey said. "We have found similar types of problems in a number of agencies," he said. A GAO report released in September said a fourth of the government's major agencies had computer security problems.
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Come January, Social Security benefits for nearly 50 million Americans are going up 2.3%, the smallest increase in four years. It will mean an extra $24 per month in the average check, the government announced Wednesday.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Society of Enrolled Agents (CSEA) reports that its Members have noticed a Social Security Administration (SSA) error affecting 1099s mailed in January. Enrolled Agents are tax professionals licensed by the federal government to represent taxpayers and assist them with tax planning and the preparation of tax returns.
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Some estimates are that by the year 2040, Social Security and Medicare will consume as much as 60 percent of income taxes collected. The remaining 40 percent of tax revenue would have to finance all the rest of the federal government.
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