EDS to pay for printing social security numbers
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The company will pay for theft insurance and credit monitoring for up to 26,000 Wisconsin residents who had their social security numbers put on address labels.
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The U.S. government health insurance  plan for the elderly and disabled will pay for doctors to run  PET brain scans to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, U.S. officials  said on Thursday.
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There are thousands of dollars just waiting to be claimed, and NBC 10 has the list. Monday, the IRS released a list of a couple thousand names of people from the Philadelphia area -- including South Jersey and Delaware -- who have checks coming to them.
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If you work after you've started receiving Social Security, you could lose some of your benefits.
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The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected.
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By Emily Berry, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 24--Thousands of Erlanger employees' names and Social Security numbers stored electronically disappeared from a locked office last week, and hospital officials are notifying them in letters sent Friday.
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Thousands of workers in the United States and Mexico could be eligible for Social Security benefits under a proposed agreement between the two nations.
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Even some prominent Texans are among those whose Social Security numbers were posted on a state-run site.
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The General Services Administration plans to charge a one-time fee of $2,500 for vendors and the public to receive a direct, continuous Web feed from the new Federal Procurement Data System.
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EDS U.S. Government in Herndon won a $92 million contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to administer and manage software applications that process Medicare claims in 12 states.
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Have you ever seen a $25,000 PC Card that hooks to a scanner to produce clean content used for forms? Some professional groups pay those kind of dollars so they can use EDI to speed up their collections. Call the filer a service provider and call the paper billing company a payer. So why does the payer make a provider kill trees to get paid? read more
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A customer filed a $54 million lawsuit against Best Buy for losing an $1100 laptop she took in for service. The reason, exposure to identity theft.  It's about time vendors were forced to recognize the value of customers' data. I recall how the chief genius at the Apple store in Emeryville complained that they would have to eat the cost of the drive in a deal they made with the manufacturer. Someday they'll have a clue that the data on most drives is worth far more than the hardware, and that their potential liability, if the data ends up in the hands of an identity thief, is also much greater.
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The U.S. Social Security  Administration is set to publicize its financial problems and  promote partial privatization of the government pension system  as part of a solution, despite the objections of many agency  employees, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Customers of Britain's postal service will be able to pay for their postage online and print out unique bar codes directly onto envelopes from Tuesday, The Times reported.
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The state will be the first in recent years to notify residents of the misuse of their Social Security numbers.
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One of the most common forms of identity theft involves illegal immigrants using fraudulent Social Security numbers.
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The nation's 47 million Social Security recipients got a bit of good news yesterday: their checks next year will increase 2.7 percent, or an average of $25 thanks to the program's annual cost-of-living adjustment. But looking further into the future, the news is less encouraging. A trio of forces -- higher taxes, rising medical costs, and a mandated increase in ...