A Message
To All SSA and DDS Employees
Subject: Possible Shutdown -
Update
With less
than 24 hours remaining to avert a government shutdown, I join you in hoping
that Congress will pass a resolution so we may continue delivering the full
scope of our services to the American public.
While Congress does still have time to act, we must continue to take
careful and prudent steps to prepare for a potential government shutdown,
including informing the public about the specific services they can expect us to
provide.
To provide
you with up-to-date information, we established a special website for you at
www.socialsecurity.gov/shutdown/employees.html. This is an external site so you can easily
access it from anywhere you have Internet access. This website provides you with a toll-free
telephone hotline (1-866-909-6876) that will
relay critical information including when SSA employees should return to
work. While all of us will be paying
close attention to the news media since they would most likely be the first to
broadcast any general announcement advising Federal employees to return to work, SSA’s
national
hotline will be the only way to get updated information
specific to our status. Included on this
special website are Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), a sample letter for
creditors, as well as information about outside employment and unemployment
compensation.
To keep
the public informed about our status, we continue to use our social media
channels as well as post information on www.socialsecurity.gov,
including updated FAQs. Today we launched a webpage at www.socialsecurity.gov/shutdown that
clearly explains the effects of a shutdown.
Again, I
thank you for your continued patience and the hard work you do every day for the
American people, even as we prepare to dial down some of the services we
provide.
Let us all
hope that our required work to prepare for a Federal shutdown is
unnecessary.
Carolyn W.
Colvin
Acting
Commissioner
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