Big Brother Agencies Team Up to Cross-Check Your Benefits
Published Date: 11/25/2025
Notice
Summary
The Social Security Administration is teaming up with the IRS to double-check that people getting benefits for age, blindness, or disability are eligible and receiving the right amount. This new program starts January 1, 2026, and runs for 18 months. If you want to share your thoughts, you’ve got until December 26, 2025, to speak up—no personal info, please!
Analyzed Economic Effects
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IRS-SSA Match to Verify SSI Benefits
The Social Security Administration (SSA) will use Internal Revenue Service (IRS) return information to verify eligibility for, and the correct amount of, Title XVI Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for qualified aged, blind, and disabled applicants and recipients (and their deemors). The matching program starts January 1, 2026 and will run for 18 months.
Specific Tax and Payment Data Shared
Under the agreement SSA will electronically send IRS a finder file with Social Security numbers and name control, and the IRS will disclose to SSA payee account number, payee name and mailing address, payee taxpayer identification number (TIN), payer name and address, payer TIN, and income type and amount. This data exchange is part of the matching program that begins January 1, 2026 and lasts 18 months.
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