The Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) has posted updated figures for the number of employees at the Social Security Administration -- and the downward trend continues:
- June 2017 61,592
- March 2017 62,183
- December 2016 63,364
- September 2016 64,394
- December 2015 65,518
- September 2015 65,717
- June 2015 65,666
- March 2015 64,432
- December 2014 65,430
- September 2014 64,684
- June 2014 62,651
- March 2014 60,820
- December 2013 61,957
- September 2013 62,543
- December 2012 64,538
- September 2012 65,113
- September 2011 67,136
- December 2010 70,270
- December 2009 67,486
- September 2009 67,632
- December 2008 63,733
- September 2008 63,990
Has there been any indication of how many SSA employees took the early-out option offered in July?
ReplyDeleteFor those that say Trump hasn't done anything (me included), here is proof to the contrary. He is living up to his promise to shrink government...mostly by inaction.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see a graph showing how these numbers correspond to the wait for a Social Security Disability hearing.
ReplyDeleteOIG recently released a report matching a 22% decline in ODAR (or OHA, or OHO) staffing levels, to a 22% decline in ALJ productivity.
ReplyDeleteHilarious. It's literally a 1-to-1 ratio. If ALJs can't find the staff to work up the cases in POST, or writers to get to the drafts in UNWR, then they can't sign cases.
And yet, the Republicans in that House subcommittee hearing last month kept telling the SSA panelists that the US is broke and that SSA will have to learn how to do more with less ...