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Senate Special Committee on Aging–Hearing on ID Theft

October 12, 2015

The Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on October 7, 2015.  The subject of the hearing  was Protecting Seniors from Identity Theft: Is the Federal Government Doing Enough?” 

Witnesses included a representative of the Senior Medicare Patrol, HHS, CMS and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).  Individual witness’ testimony  is available for download as a pdf. A video of the hearing is available here. The EPIC witness testified concerning identify theft related to Social Security Numbers. A press release about his testimony is available from the EPIC website here.