美国社会保障局周二表示，已更正了所有有效社会保障号码中近15%的记录，补充了缺失的死亡和公民身份信息，这是特朗普政府为防范福利项目欺诈所做努力的一部分。
The US Social Security Administration said on Tuesday that it had corrected records for nearly 15% of all active Social Security numbers, adding missing death and citizenship information, as part of the Trump administration's effort to prevent fraud in the benefits program.
社保局称，这是该机构91年历史上最全面的一次清理。社保局在一份声明中表示，该局为此前缺少死亡信息的记录补充了1700万条死亡日期；同时利用从国土安全部“系统性外国人资格核查”（SAVE）服务获得的数据，更新了约2500万条此前缺少公民身份信息的记录。社保局表示，两项更改合计意味着，覆盖约3.3亿美国公民、总计近3.9亿条记录的所有有效社保号码中，近15%已得到更正；该局还表示，正在努力更正另外850万条公民身份状态不准确的记录。
社保局局长弗兰克·比西尼亚诺在声明中说：“准确的社保号码记录可防止联邦项目中的欺诈，并有助于福利的正确管理。”社会保障局负责为数千万美国老年人和残疾人管理福利。唐纳德·特朗普总统去年上任后誓言要解决他所说的社会保障体系中的欺诈和浪费问题。
In what the agency said was the most comprehensive cleanup in its 91-year history, the SSA added 17 million dates of death to records that previously lacked this information It also updated about 25 million records that previously had missing citizenship information using data received from the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) service, the SSA said in a statement Combined, those changes mean that nearly 15% of all active SSNs covering about 330 million US citizens and nearly 390 million total records have been corrected, the SSA said, adding that it was working to correct another 8.5 million records with inaccurate citizenship status "Accurate SSN records prevent fraud across federal programs and support the proper administration of benefits," SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano said in the statement The Social Security Administration administers benefits for tens of millions of older Americans and people with disabilities President Donald Trump vowed to address what he said was fraud and waste in the Social Security system after taking office last year