The Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) has posted updated figures for the number of employees at the Social Security Administration:
- September 2018 62,519
- June 2018 60,898
- December 2017 62,777
- September 2017 62,297
- June 2017 61,592
- March 2017 62,183
- December 2016 63,364
- December 2015 65,518
- December 2014 65,430
- December 2013 61,957
- December 2012 64,538
- September 2011 67,136
- December 2010 70,270
- December 2009 67,486
- December 2008 63,733
- September 2008 63,990
I was a CR, glad I am not anymore. They couldnt pay me enough to do that job any longer. Anybody that talks about how great the agency is, is certainly insulated from the front lines.
ReplyDeletewould be interesting to see the breakdown by component. Certainly not going up in OHO (nee ODAR).
ReplyDeleteThe first cohort of Boomers (1946-1955) are now full retirement age or will attain it no later than April 2022 and all became eligible for age 62 benefits in 2017 or earlier. They are disappearing from disability applications because they are either eligible for full benefits or if adjudicated disabled, became eligible for full benefits or will be eligible for full benefits by 2020 if disabled.
ReplyDeleteCohort 2 is between age 63 or turn 55 this year.
Gen X and Cohort 2 of the Boomers are in sweet spot of disability applications so we can expect given their numbers, absent a significant recession that disability numbers should begin declining while demand for public facing representatives to work with old age and survivor applications and issues will increase.
Assuming the Boomers dont change the rules, make retirement even further out for GenX and beyond and raise our taxes while making it more difficult to get benefits by moving the GRID ages, anyone younger than a Boomer knows not to trust them one inch.
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