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The claim that the U.S. Social Security program has been given a new official name in 2026.
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that advocacy groups or think tanks have been pushing to rename the Social Security program itself in recent coverage; the sources instead document propo...
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...
No — the Social Security Administration is not being renamed to the name of any single benefit; the reporting and official Social Security resources cited here describe how individuals change their le...
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 ...