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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Social Security Administration has announced it will soon require people seeking some services to prove their identities in person.

These changes come at a time when the agency is making

cuts to its staff and closing various local offices. Here's NPR's Ashley Lopez. Agency officials

say over the next two weeks, they're going to transition to a process that, quote, strengthens the

identity proofing procedures for people seeking Social Security benefit claims

and direct deposit changes.

Instead of doing this on the agency's website, which has an online identity-proving system,

people will have to go in person to a local Social Security office.

Agency officials say this is an effort to prevent fraud.

But advocates say these changes will make it harder for Americans to collect their earned benefits and force seniors and people with

disabilities to travel in person at a time when the Social Security Administration is closing

local offices across the country and reducing staff. Ashley Lopez, NPR News. A court order deadlines now up for the

administration to answer questions about last weekend's deportation flights carried out under an 18th century

wartime law. U.S. District Judge James Bosberg seeking more details about the administration's actions,

even though he'd order the planes carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members out of the U.S. to be turned around. This afternoon, White House

Press Secretary Caroline Levick criticized the judge's ruling. We don't have any flights plans

specifically, but we will continue with the mass deportations. And I would just like to point out

that the judge in this case is essentially trying to say that the president doesn't have

the executive authority to deport foreign terrorists from our American soil. That is an egregious

abuse of the bench. This judge does not have that authority. It is the opinion of this White

House and of this administration, and that's why we're fighting this in court.

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