The Social Security Administration has corrected nearly 60 million records in its database, updating information on citizenship status and adding dates of death as the agency works to improve the accuracy of records used to administer federal benefits.

The agency has corrected nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers across a database containing nearly 390 million total records, according to the SSA. The United States has approximately 330 million citizens.

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