Social Security

As the caller threatened that my noncompliance could potentially cost me my visa status, I became anxious. Was this a normal procedure that I didn’t know about, like so many other things in the United States?

Following a nationwide data breach, UC Berkeley community members reported that their personal information was detected on the dark web.

On March 31, the UC system announced that it was one of 300 organizations affected by a nationwide cyberattack on Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance, a vendor service used for “transferring sensitive information.”

Rising Immigrant Scholars through Education at Berkeley began an online fundraiser to raise money for its RISE Relief Fund to support undocumented students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The California State Assembly passed Assembly Joint Resolution No. 41, or AJR 41, on June 25, which requests Congress and the President to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision from the Social Security Act.

I had never stopped to consider that obtaining this piece of paper with a Social Security would be a struggle in my own adult life, as it was for my mom.

I felt anxious when I saw the highlighted portions, momentarily forgetting that, thanks to DACA, I now had a valid Social Security number.

A UC task force submitted its recommendations on Friday regarding new retirement benefit options for future UC employees to UC President Janet Napolitano.

Outside California Hall on Wednesday, approximately 100 lecturers, faculty members and students rallied to push the university to accept their proposals for lecturers’ job security, benefits and compensation.