Below are the June 2009 figures for the number of employees at Social Security, recently released by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), along with earlier figures for comparison purposes.
- June 2009 66,614
- March 2009 63,229
- December 2008 63,733
- September 2008 63,990
- June 2008 63,622
- March 2008 60,465
- December 2007 61,822
- September 2007 62,407
- June 2007 62,530
- March 2007 61,867
- December 2006 63,410
- September 2006 63,647
- September 2005 66,147
- September 2004 65,258
- September 2003 64,903
- September 2002 64,648
- September 2001 65,377
- September 2000 64,521
- September 1999 63,957
- September 1998 65,629
7 comments:
Jumps. Will this lead to improvement? Better judges,staff,etc.
Government spending on the rise...surprise, surprise!
And this is a good thing?
Wait until you see the numbers for September 2009....
Wow, so we have exactly 1015 more employees than we did 11 years ago--we're just out of control! Of course, the backlogs are really what are out of control, and we need at least another 20,000 employees, which is not going to happen. So, what's the big deal?
At our local SSA office we have lost three indivuduals for various reasons. What needs to happen are supervisors and managers should do their fair share of work but I see very little production.
It's nice to know that SSA is hiring more employees and is back to staffing that existed some time in the late 1990's. Since the work loads and man years needed exceed that of the the late 1990's by a minimum of 15% that means SSA should hire more
people to work in the FO's and authorize more money for the states to hire more people in the DDS system in the individual states.
Computerizing the work in the agency does make make decisions, claims ,management or any interactions occur faster. When you use computers (no matter how fast they process numbers) thee are three or four or even five steps n the process that require people. FO's, DDS and DDS recon, ODAR & then AC. treecan
Um, no--computerization does not make things go faster. It means that one person can do the work of several others, but the overall time is about the same. As a CR, I used to take paper claims, which were processed with the asssistance of CDC's and DRT's, and the payment centers. Post-entitlement was handled by SR's. Now, I do all of those things alone, start to finish, with no handoffs. And having to scan forms and proofs into the electronic folder is extra work. Anyone in the FO's can tell you that disability claims take more worktime now than in the pre-EDCS era. Computerization is to allow management tighter controls over the workloads and the workers. That is its main function, by far.
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