SSA Press Releases (email)

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 1 · email bulletin · Social Security Administration

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What this source is

The Social Security Administration administers retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. Its bulletins carry press releases on benefit amounts, cost-of-living adjustments, policy changes, and program administration.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

ssa-email

Agency / parent organization

Social Security Administration

Branch

executive

Type

email bulletin

Status

active

Tier

1

URL (home)

https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/index.html (opens in a new tab)

URL (signup)

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USSSA/subscriber/new (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-29

Registry notes

Subscribed and confirmed 2026-07-29 (sender [address withheld]). Sibling of ssa-newsroom, which returns HTTP 403 to our identified client — the first working input for this agency. No bulletin observed as of the 2026-07-29 evening poll (~45-minute window); subscription confirmed, window open — activate on first parsed bulletin.

How we ingest it

Channel

email bulletin

Method

Subscription bulletins to the project mailbox, ingested by the email adapter (src/fapd/email_sources.py; raw RFC-5322 capture, DKIM verify-and-archive).

Adapter

govdelivery

Poll cadence

the project mailbox is read about every 15 minutes

Requests

none — bulletins are delivered to the project mailbox by the agency's own subscription service

Authenticity

every message's DKIM signature is checked on arrival and the result is disclosed on each item; a failing signature is labeled, never silently dropped

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 7 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-08-03, delivered by email.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day