Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U.S.

More than 200 former congressional staffers had their Social Security numbers leaked in the JFK files that were declassified this week. A Jan. 23 executive order by President Donald Trump ordered all ...

Social Security numbers, including for some people still living, were included in the 64,000 pages of documents that the Trump administration released this week. By Sarah Maslin Nir and Maggie ...