I can't verify this just from the news article, but that sounds like a contact station and not a field office. Shutting down a contact station is much less of a deal in my eyes. Contact stations are a bare-bones operation to begin with. The employee may or may not have a private room to work in (sounds like Slidell does not), there is usually a laptop but not always a printer, and half the time the employee has to take work back to their home office anyway.
It is just another indication of service reductions throughout Social Security--without adequate staffing, SSA has to eliminate anything that is not absolutely necessary. Actual service to the public, which a contact station represents, is now considered an unaffordable luxury.
I can't verify this just from the news article, but that sounds like a contact station and not a field office. Shutting down a contact station is much less of a deal in my eyes. Contact stations are a bare-bones operation to begin with. The employee may or may not have a private room to work in (sounds like Slidell does not), there is usually a laptop but not always a printer, and half the time the employee has to take work back to their home office anyway.
ReplyDeleteIt is just another indication of service reductions throughout Social Security--without adequate staffing, SSA has to eliminate anything that is not absolutely necessary. Actual service to the public, which a contact station represents, is now considered an unaffordable luxury.
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