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The term 'federal benefit payments' is used by the Social Security Administration and other federal entities to describe disbursements such as retirement benefits, disability insurance, and other federally funded payments.
Rumors that “they” are renaming Social Security payments to “Federal Benefit Payments” are false: the Social Security Administration has long described its disbursements as benefits, and reputable fac...
A clear, single replacement name for Social Security has not been adopted; the phrase most commonly cited in federal documents and in some reporting is "federal benefit payments," a descriptive classi...
The Social Security Administration’s legal and regulatory language consistently describes financial support to beneficiaries using a set of plain-English but formally defined labels — most commonly “b...
There is no evidence that the Social Security program has been officially renamed “Federal Benefit Payments”; longstanding government documents and fact-checking outlets show that the term “federal be...
There is no evidence that the U.S. Social Security program has been given a new official name; the Social Security Administration and independent fact‑checks show the program continues to be referred ...