Richard Warsinskey, the President of the National Council of Social Security Management Associations (NCSSMA), an organization of management personnel, has written a commentary in the Federal Times on Social Security's backlogs and the agency's need for more funding and more personnel. Let me excerpt one paragraph:
SSA will lose about 4,000 positions from the beginning of fiscal 2006 to the end of fiscal 2007. This will leave the agency at its lowest level of staffing since the early 1970s, which is before SSA took over the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The largest proportion of these losses has been in the field — nearly 2,500 positions.
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This is a travesty. Public service at SSA is declining and is at the lowest level since 1974 when SSI started. The strength of the entire agency -- the local community presence -- is so underfunded it is starving a slow death.
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