The Social Security Administration wants more babies signed up for ‘Trump accounts.’ But there’s still a catch. Social Security is looking to reverse an initially slow uptake on Trump accounts President Donald Trump gives a pen to a child during an event about "Trump accounts" in the Oval Office on Oct. 7. The Social Security Administration just made it a little easier for parents to sign up their newborns for “Trump accounts” — investment accounts for children under 18 — but the move falls short of a hoped-for auto-enrollment process.
The SSA will now include information about Trump accounts with Social Security cards issued to newborns through the so-called “enumeration at birth” program. The insert provides instructions for claiming an eligible child’s account through the Trump Accounts app. Babies born between 2025 and 2028 are eligible to receive $1,000 in seed money for these accounts from the U.S.
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