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US Social Security awards Carahsoft identity, biometrics deal worth up to $29.6M

US Social Security awards Carahsoft identity, biometrics deal worth up to $29.6M

2026-10-06  Per Henrikson

Login.gov and ID.me are now the agency’s only sign-in and identity-verification options for personal my Social Security accounts. SSA eliminated its legacy Social Security username and password option in June 2025.rahsoft a $29.6M BPA for identity verification, biometrics, document authentication and fraud detection, with $5.2M obligated so far. Both existing services already perform identity proofing. SSA instructions for ID.me, for example, tell users to upload a government-issued identity document and take a selfie that ID.me compares with the person pictured on the document. 


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