Jan 20, 2025

New Acting Commissioner

     Social Security’s organization chart now shows Michelle King as Acting Commissioner.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Something seems weird with the Deputy Chief Actuary on the chart. It says (Vacant) and then it says Michael L. Stephens. How can it be both vacant and occupied at the same time?

Anonymous said...

There are two deputies. One is now vacant.

Anonymous said...

Interesting. Hopefully they can get Mr. Frank Bisignano on quickly.

Anonymous said...

weird, it still shows Nagle as CALJ. He left that position a few months ago

Anonymous said...

His nomination review is not on the Senate’s calendar. Probably not a priority for a while.

Anonymous said...

AC King should issue a statement clarifying whether current levels of telework will continue at SSA for 5 years, as specified in the O"Malley /AFGE contract. She sent out an email yesterday, but not a word about what everyone is talking about, and the rumor mill is running full steam within SSA.

Trump's executive order says to end remote work fort federal workers. , We need to know. whether that applies to SSA workers who have union negotiated contracts. AFGE is indicating his executive order will not to apply to these SSA workers.

Anonymous said...

A Message to All SSA Employees

Subject: Return to Office

We are notifying you that we are fully complying with the Presidential Memorandum Return to In-Person Work and guidance from the Office of Personnel Management, which require that eligible employees work full time at their respective duty stations unless excused due to a disability, qualifying medical condition, or other compelling reason certified by the agency head and the employee’s supervisor.

We will share additional details about implementation tomorrow. Your managers do not have additional information at this time, so please hold questions until we provide further guidance.

Michelle King
Acting Commissioner

Anonymous said...

So will SSA breach its contract that it signed with AFGE guaranteeing telework at the current levels through 2029? Those were bargained for rights that can't be unilaterally taken away by the whims of a president.

Anonymous said...

Will SSA breach its contract with AFGE guaranteeing telwwoek at the current levels through 2029? Those were bargained for rights that can't be unilaterally taken away by a president.

Anonymous said...

Given her past behavior, the answer is certainly yes. King and her ilk have demonstrated time and time again that they have contempt for the staff in the field, and have never passed up on an opportunity to violate their collective bargaining rights. Remember, these snakes had to be called out repeatedly by the Biden administration before they even started discussions with the unions to begin unwinding the catastrophic damage done by the first Trump administration.