Entity

Social Security

A topic on our watch list — we track its coverage across 8 coverage verticals, including World Wires, Water and Hnw Planning.

As of 17 Oct 2026Last evidence 16 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Social Security checks: Commissioner Frank Bisignano made a surprising prediction for monthly benefits as COLA 2027 increase looms

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

All 1 event and claims involving Social Security

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 37 mentions on 17 Oct 2026, against 6 on 26 Sept 2026 (+517%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 10 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims No claim first reported since 16 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

980 documents · 208 publishers · 3% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 16 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.03: about 97% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Social Security

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

MedicareInflationTreasuryTrumpCola
  • Medicare · 303 shared documents
  • IRS · 230 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Inflation · 211 shared documents
  • Roth · 169 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Treasury · 164 shared documents
  • Trump · 152 shared documents
  • Required Minimum Distribution · 148 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Tax Bill · 147 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States Congress · 144 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Cola · 140 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 37 mentions on 17 Oct 2026 with 6 on 26 Sept 2026 (+517%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +363% from 4 Sept 2026 to 17 Oct 2026, between 5 and 42 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Social Security, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Social Security yet. Ask about Social Security

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/4a8d0b3d2c4bfab8118b146a returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name social security.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Social Security

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Social Security checks: Commissioner Frank Bisignano made a surprising prediction for monthly benefits as COLA 2027 increase looms

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

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Social Security

Entity.

Evidence
980 documents · 208 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 10 Jun 2026, last seen 16 Oct 2026
Measured
3% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
17 Oct 2026
11 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (1)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Social Security, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

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Recorded history

  • 10 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 8 Oct 2026

  • 10 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 8 Oct 2026

  • 8 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 31 Aug 2026

  • 8 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 31 Aug 2026

4 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 17 Oct 2026.