Social Security wrongly told disabled people and some seniors their benefits ended, causing alarm

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11. About a year or so ago, SS and OPM suggested people start exclusively using a "central" login option - Login.gov

https://www.login.gov/

(alternately people could use ID.me - https://www.id.me/)

They sent out a million emails about it.

I just started getting SS last year but had already created a Login.gov account when they started switching over to that instead of my logging directly into OPM for my federal annuity info. They then applied (linked) my Login.gov login info to my SS account and I was good to go.

(ETA - and for clarification, I DID have a different account that I had used for SS over the years but that was, I assume, phased out and replaced with my "Login.gov" account once I linked the Login.gov account to SS)