The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has posted updated figures for the number of employees at Social Security. Here they are with earlier numbers for comparison purposes.
- March 2011 68,700
- December 2010 70,270
- June 2010 69,600
- March 2010 66,863
- December 2009 67,486
- September 2009 67,632
- June 2009 66,614
- March 2009 63,229
- December 2008 63,733
- September 2008 63,990
- September 2007 62,407
- 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
Notice the rapid decline since the beginning of the fiscal year. Republican foot-dragging in the last Congress and the election results have more than a little to do with this.
The Republicans say they are interested in improving the economy, but these cuts, among other social service cuts, just flood an already oversaturated job market with more unemployed people.
ReplyDeleteThe last Congress was controlled by the Dems who chose not to pass a budget.
ReplyDeleteThis was to be expected. A two year pay freeze combined with a degenerating work climate has probably accelerated retirements at SSA.
ReplyDeleteTheir workforce declined in March the prior 2 years as well but they rebounded big time in both years. The true test will be how many employees they have as of June 2011. I'm guessing there won't be a rebound like we've seen in prior years.
ReplyDeleteIt is time for management to start doing more work due to the reduction in work force. It seems that management has no problem filling management openings but that makes the job more difficult for claims and service representatives since no new hirings are taking place. It is time for management to start calling numbers just like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteYou really think they could still do the job? I'd like to see some ADM who's been in management for ten years try to process a claim.
ReplyDeleteI know a number of people who just retired the beginning of June. The trend is likely to accelerate and peak at the end of the year--then we'll see how they expect the work to get done.
ReplyDeleteI am in a small component that had about 60 people. We have been losing about 10% each year due to retirements. Even if that number doesn't increase, with no new hires, we can barely get the work done. We will be down by about 30%when the December retirements kick in. And the workload continues to expand. I have always said that the Republican philosophy is that if they can't do away with Social Security directly, they will back door our demise by making us implode from inside.
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