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| Demonstrators protesting closure of Arlington, VA field office |
The Social Security Administration plans to close its Arlington field office and one of its Baltimore locations in June, part of a series of shutdowns across the country that activists and political leaders say is causing major difficulties for the elderly, people with disabilities and other beneficiaries.
The agency has closed about 125 of its approximately 1,250 offices since 2000 — a 10 percent reduction, part of what officials describe as a shift to greater use of online services in an era of budget constraints and a growing population of senior citizens.
In addition, all 533 Social Security Administration “contact sites” — locations that serve remote, rural populations on a weekly or monthly basis — have closed, said leaders of the union that represents Social Security employees. ...
Does an office that closed in one city (10-12 employees) but reopens in a nearby city with over 2X as many employees count as a closure?
ReplyDeleteAn acting comish once told Congress that they could no longer do more with less and were going to be doing less with less. Nobody listened, just ridiculed. Appears they were right.
ReplyDeleteBarnhart, Astrue, and Colvin all told Congress that you get less with less.
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