Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” is claiming to have already saved over $232 million at Social Security, primarily by cancelling a contract with Leidos, Inc. Social Security has been contracting with Leidos for more than thirty years for IT support.
NPR, however, is reporting that the Leidos contract with Social Security hasn’t actually been terminated.
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They also look to have multiplied the value of some contracts by 1000, and to have counted as “savings” the salaries of workers they indiscriminately fired then quickly rehired <24 hours later upon actually being informed of the fired workers’ jobs.
I am sure doge will have a friend who can “be more efficient “ with that service ..
I think I have seen this movie before…
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Leidos is the primary IT contractor at SSA. Their full contract is much more than $232 million. And right now 30% of SSA’s IT employees are retirement eligible. These are the IT employees co-President Musk maligns as lazy — but the truth is, they are the hard-working, knowledgeable people who keep the very old systems operating so the Agency can pay benefits to 72 million Americans every month without fail. So, when the nine-teen year olds from DOGE crow about reducing the Leidos contract, know that they are also reducing the ability of the agency to backfill against the wave of early-out, “fork in the Agency”retirements that are coming. The result? System collapse. Mark my words. (BTW, What happened to all those walking dead zombies who DOGE told us were roaming the continental U.S. with Social Security checks spewing out of their cadaverous pockets???)
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Thanks for the update. And thanks for everything you did as Commissioner.
Yes collapse is exactly what they want. Very sad. Thank you for all you did when you were Commissioner. Truly one of the best in my 30 year career.
Thank you for addressing this and thank you for your work as commissioner. I honestly was skeptical at first but you won me over and I was sad to see you go. Thank you for standing up for us in the oversight hearings and finally speaking truth about our needs. Security Stat was an amazing improvement to the agency and the public will never know how much you helped us improve. Best wishes to you in your future endeavors.
The incel DOGE boys have obtained access to SSA systems as members of the CIO office.
Federal employees are under attack from DOGE to the House GOP in order to pass the Trump tax cuts.
For the House Oversight and Government Reform, the figure would be $50 billion through 2034. Although details would be up to the committee, the programs under its control that involve the most money are federal retirement and health insurance benefits.
One potential template is an options document that has been circulating this year among Capitol Hill Republicans, in which the highest-value possible change for the committee to back—$44 billion over 10 years—would be requiring all FERS employees to contribute 4.4 percent of salary toward their retirement benefits.
Currently, that contribution is 0.8 percent for those hired before 2013, 1.3 percent for those hired in 2013 and 4.4 percent for those hired since that year. About half of FERS employees have less than 10 years of service and already are paying at the 4.4 percent rate.
The probationary worker purge has begun at SSA.
Good to still see you in the fight! Keep it up. Need you to set the record straight more than ever.
Martin, you caused a lot of this. You could have tightened the ship but chose self-aggrandizement over promoting the agency. You returned to work many people and caused your own set of de facto layoffs. You are no friend to agency employees.
I’m so happy to see you in the fight, COSS. You were fantastic to work with, and FO colleagues have said that the e-sign and appointment-focused service cut their workload in half. You were the best change-maker we’ve had, and we would like to humbly beg you to use that success to come back and help once again before they burn the whole house down. Please please help us.
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