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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – APRIL 15: Former U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a conference hosted by the Advocates, Counselors, and Representatives for the Disabled (ACRD) on April 15, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. ACRD champions the rights of those who depend on Social Security and disability services. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump has ‘taken a hatchet’ to Social Security, Biden says in first remarks since leaving office

By Steve Peoples, Fatima Hussein, and others

FILE – IRS Criminal Investigator Joseph Ziegler, right, and IRS Special Agent Gary Shapley, appear before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing to argue that the Justice Department interfered with a yearslong investigation into Hunter Biden, at the Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

IRS whistleblower who testified about Hunter Biden tax investigation is set to be named acting commissioner

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

FILE – This March 22, 2013, file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Personal Finance

Tax season nightmare: The IRS is so understaffed from DOGE they ‘don’t have time to look at certain cases’

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Social Security is classifying more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead to get them to leave the country

By Will Weissert, Fatima Hussein, and others

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

IRS acting commissioner is quitting over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help with deportation efforts

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

Trump is giving TikTok another 75-day reprieve to find a new buyer as Amazon, MrBeast, and Alexis Ohanian line up to make a deal

By Fatima Hussein, Sarah Parvini, and others

WASHINGTON, D.C. – JANUARY 03: The U.S. Flag flys above the International Revenue Service headquarters building on January 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

AI is making it easier to commit financial crimes, so the IRS is overhauling its tech after finding $21 billion in fraud in just two years

By The Associated Press and Fatima Hussein

Scott Bessent in front of a black background

America could run out of cash to pay its bills as early as this summer

By Fatima Hussein, Kevin Freking, and others

FILE – Frank Bisignano, right, then Chairman and CEO of First Data, smiles after the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange, Oct. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Trump SSA nominee and self-proclaimed ‘DOGE person’ gets Senate hearing as Democrat decries ‘wholesale effort to dismantle Social Security’

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

Elon Musk

The IRS just demoted its chief counsel who clashed with Elon Musk’s DOGE: report

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

FILE – The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS’s free electronic tax filing program could get cut despite its success after Elon Musk says DOGE ‘deleted’ government tech group that created it

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

A sign on the Internal Revenue Service building is seen on Thursday, February 20, 2025.

IRS poised to consider thousands of job cuts that would hit half its workforce

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

FILE – The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS layoffs of 7,000 may cut revenue collection and foil efforts to snag rich tax dodgers, experts say

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

FILE – The sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building is seen. May 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

IRS plans to lay off 7,000 recently hired workers starting immediately

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press

US President Donald Trump walks on stage to speak at FII PRIORITY Miami 2025 Summit (Future Investment Initiative) at the Faena Hotel & Forum in Miami Beach, Florida, February 19, 2025.

After Trump claimed millions of dead people were getting social security checks, Trump’s pick to lead the agency disputes the statement

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press