SSA Press Releases
unavailable Executive · Tier 1 · HTML index · Independent agency
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What this source is
The Social Security Administration administers retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. Its newsroom carries press releases on benefit amounts, policy changes, and program administration, typically a few items per month.
Identity and registry record
- Registry id
ssa-newsroom- Agency / parent organization
- Independent agency
- Branch
- executive
- Type
- HTML index
- Status
- unavailable
- Tier
- 1
- URL (home)
- https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/index.html (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2026-07-26
- Registry notes
- Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF). Recorded, not evaded. Research 2026-07-28: press index moved to /news/en/press/releases/ (recorded for any future re-probe); no feed or API alternative found — GovDelivery email (USSSA) is the documented channel. SSA OIG has RSS at oig.ssa.gov/rss/ and is also covered by the planned oversight.gov aggregator. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: ssa-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged).
How we ingest it
- Channel
- HTML index
- Method
- Would parse the newsroom HTML index daily for new items.
- Request budget
- the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)
- Politeness
- robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded
- 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
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable.
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.
Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only.
All time
No requests to www.ssa.gov are recorded in the request log.
Last 30 days, day by day
No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.