Federal officials announced on Oct. 20 that they corrected tens of millions of Social Security records, including about 25 million that were missing citizenship information.
The Social Security Administration said it updated about 42 million records in the Social Security Number (SSN) database, representing “the most comprehensive SSN record clean‑up in the agency’s 91-year history.”
A major part of the effort involved using data from the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which is maintained by federal immigration officials.
The Social Security Administration updated about 25 million records that had been missing citizenship information, officials said on Tuesday.
The agency also added dates of death to some 17 million records, using internal data and State Department records….