I’m seeing a report that the total layoffs at Social Security will be 7,000. It’s mathematically impossible to achieve this without losing mission critical personnel.
I’m seeing a report that the total layoffs at Social Security will be 7,000. It’s mathematically impossible to achieve this without losing mission critical personnel.
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And More To Come...
SSA did a press release today announcing it. https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/#2025-02-28
No wonder MAGA Leland Dudek is pushing for the completion of the WEP and GPO cases. The SSA employee pool is shrinking by the second!
The million dollar question is will the early outs cover it?
Everyone needs to call representative Clay Higgins. He’s the one who held up his phone during the oversight hearing to show the wait times and demanded everyone get back into the office to help with this. How is cutting staff going to help. Call him and ask. I did.
House Republicans have already reduced staffing at SSA to a fifty year low. At least DOGE’s ACOSS walked back the 50% edict. But the fact remains, they are gutting Social Security and robbing hardworking Americans of the customer service they’ve already paid for by paying in their whole lives.
But given the toxic work environment, the constant threat of firings, the abuse and public embarrassing of SES (particularly women), and the tons of OUR money they are giving employees to leave now and get paid for the year… they are going to gut the agency by a lot more than another 7,000.
And yes, all this gutting of customer service, disability determinations, claims processing and IT systems will crater mission critical functions.
Mission critical is being defined way too narrowly too.
I feel so sorry for the claimants who have waiting as long as two years for their day in court. As an ALJ, it makes me feel sick. I plan to review all of my pending cases to see if I can do an OTR before I leave the agency. Who knows how long it will be until the canceled hearings get rescheduled
Can someone confirm the Appeals Council sent out RIF notices today. If so, can someone post a copy of it.
Phase 1, but target is half
Looks a lot better than the 50% rumor…
The kicker will be if they cut management staff that carried the agency through the pandemic.
The agency’s swift reorganization is being led by Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner whom Trump named to the post less than two weeks ago. He was a mid-level career staffer at Social Security before being elevated, and he is aggressively reshaping the agency as Trump’s nominee, Frank Bisignano, awaits Senate confirmation.
Dudek had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation earlier in February for working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, but the president instead decided to put him in the top job temporarily.
A “significant focus” of the overhaul will be on “functions and employees who don’t directly provide mission critical services,” Social Security said in a press release.
The news release says that SSA wants to go from 57,000 to 50,000. Many of those could be voluntary resignations and retirements though. I don't think this means that 7,000 will be terminated.
It will definitely crater mission critical services. Given the gutting of customer service and IT systems, I believe for the first time in 90 years, we will see an interruption in benefits — for tens of millions of Americans.
Call your Congress people and senators. Email them. EVERY DAY. Tell your family and friends. Do not despair. There’s 57,000 of us and when you add up our loved ones, many more. FIGHT BACK NOW
It's not a report it's confirmed.
Https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/#2025-02-28
Higgins is hell bent on privatizing Social Security.
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