Unconscionable Cuts to SS

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

CALL YOUR CONGRESS REPS AND SENATORS! Making cuts to an agency which is already understaffed and underbudgeted is unconscionable. These cuts are going to cause the experienced employees to retire or resign, leaving us with a lot of employees that haven’t been properly trained, and don’t know or care, what they are doing. This is going to affect anyone that receives Social Security Disability (“SSD”) benefits, Supplemental Income (“SSI”) or retirement benefits, and anyone planning on applying for them. It affects people of all ages, races and gender. If you don’t have a Social Security Number, you cannot get benefits. If you do have one, you still have to meet rigid criteria to get any kind of benefits.

If DOGE wanted to save money at the SSA, then it should consider trying to reduce waste and fraud rather than firing employees. DOGE could require eliminating Reconsideration in SSD and SSI cases. DOGE could reduce the excessive amount of paper that is wasted by SSA constantly mailing duplicate letters and forms. DOGE could insist on sufficient training for SSA employees to ensure they all know how to do their jobs correctly. What agency is trying to fix the delays that plague the SSA due to lack of staff and funds? What agency is trying to avoid having claimants with no income, who are unable to work at a fulltime job, to lose their homes, or to die before a decision is made? DOGE is obviously making everything worse at the SSA. What agency is trying to improve anything at the SSA?

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