The Social Security Administration (SSA) is implementing new, stronger identity verification requirements. This change means that most beneficiaries can no longer verify their identity over the phone.

After a year of delays, errors, staff shortages and all-around misery, the IRS wants to make it as easy as possible for taxpayers to manage their records and prepare their tax returns as filing season ...

The Internal Revenue Service today said that selfies collected from taxpayers will be deleted and that it has deployed a new verification option as an alternative to its controversial facial ...

(TNS) — Taxpayers, lawmakers and digital privacy advocates rebelled earlier this year when the IRS announced plans to require taxpayers to upload selfies if they wanted online access to their tax ...

New Jersey has started to notify residents about their ANCHOR property tax benefits. But what’s new this year is an intense effort to protect the program from fraud by requiring some taxpayers to use ...

Since the IRS opened its two new online portals for people to register for the child tax credit, many have had their efforts dampened by a burdensome identification process. See: What Can I Do If I’m ...

The Internal Revenue Service says it's giving taxpayers with individual accounts a new option to verify their identity: a live virtual interview with tax agents. This comes after the IRS backed away ...

One year ago, ID.me started seeing the first waves of backlash against its software. This resulted in contract issues and an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, the McLean, ...

Washington D.C.-area identity verification provider ID.me has raised $340 million to develop fraud-fighting technology and ...