Aliss Higham is a Newsweek reporter based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her focus is reporting on Social Security, other government benefits and personal finance. She has previously extensively covered U.S.

Starting May 7, 2023, the TSA will require REAL ID-compliant identification for adults at airport security checkpoints. Travelers can obtain a REAL ID by providing documentation such as full legal ...

After a few postponements, the deadline to obtain a REAL ID to board domestic flights is May 7, 2025. Last week, however, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) proposed a new rule that ...

Twenty years in the making, the 2005 REAL ID Act is finally going into effect on May 7. The act, passed amid other increasingly tight security measures following 9/11, established that Americans would ...

The REAL ID deadline is getting real close, but that’s fine, because it’s not a deadline per se. May 7 marks the implementation date for the REAL ID Act, meaning that from then on, anyone 18 years or ...

After multiple delays, the REAL ID enforcement deadline is just a couple of weeks away. The Transportation Security Administration will begin requiring compliant documentation for adults at U.S.