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You asked for “Credit card Data.” Recent reporting shows many breaches have exposed payment-related records (including partial card data and billing info) affecting millions: Slim CD’s breach reported...
Employers and payroll providers deliver wage data to SSA through a handful of secure channels: established Business Services Online (BSO) upload methods (W-2 Online and Wage File Upload), pilot web se...
The Payroll Information Exchange (PIE) is designed to pull employer payroll data into Social Security Administration (SSA) systems to reduce manual reporting and improper payments, but real-world pilo...
Credit card balances in the U.S. are at or near record highs — roughly $1.21–$1.33 trillion in 2025 depending on the dataset cited — while many consumers carry multi‑year balances and rising delinquen...
The available analyses show about whether the Social Security Administration’s Payroll Information Exchange (PIE) is causing erroneous wage reports: some documents and advocacy-group FOIA analysis rai...
The short answer: there is or that such a system is reporting incorrect wages. Official SSA rulemaking and guidance describe a Payroll Information Exchange that brings third‑party payroll data (includ...