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 ...

A flood of last-minute REAL ID applicants at California DMV offices have already prompted officials to ask those who can to delay their visits to obtain the ID. The deadline to obtain a REAL ID to ...