… Feds in the transformation office received emails Monday informing them that they will be fired, one affected employee told Nextgov/FCW. SSA didn’t respond to questions on the status of the employees in affected offices.
“Your further employment at the agency would not be in the public interest,” read the memo emailed to them on Monday. They didn’t get any advance notice, the affected employee said.
With the office’s elimination, it’s not clear what will happen to the agency’s website, the affected employee further told Nextgov/FCW, as that office housed the SSA team that works on SSA.gov, the online front door to the agency that provides critical benefits to millions of Americans.
Work to overhaul that website, which was recognized with a Service to the Citizen award in 2023, was ongoing.
“If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it,” said Betsy Beaumon, the agency’s former chief transformation officer under the Biden administration who was recently chosen to receive a Fed100 award for her work last year. “There are some contractors who do some of the actual hands-on work, but the people that work with them are on this team.” …
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Wasn't able to change my address in my SSA account last night so looks like there's a problem already.
red alert: do they (doge folks who have taken over) want to act as "private equity" firm and strip down SSA , break it, and sell it off for its parts. I could be wrong, but if I am right, I am horrified . Not sure why this is not THE national story right now.
I have always valued the SS website generally and their access to information via POMS once they allowed indexing by Google.
The Service to the Citizen link from SSA.gov is broken because obviously they don’t care, so here it is: https://www.servicetothecitizen.org/2023winners.
We were so proud of the work we did, and were doing. But with offices closing, it’s the public who will suffer. They wont be able to get the services in person or online.
The link to the awards is broken so here: https://www.servicetothecitizen.org/2023winners
It’s the American citizens who will suffer because with offices being shuttered, they wont be able to get service sin person or online.
You don’t really believe someone who thinks they can cut $2 trillion from the federal budget by reducing the workforce whose total salaries are far less than even $1 trillion has really thought about the impact of their actions, do you?
In this incredibly stupid timeline, there is a non-zero chance that the Office of Transformation was eliminated because some 19 year old DOGE prick thought it was for DEI.
maybe Elon can do it himself? seems like he has nothing but time to shitpost on Twitter all day long
I’ve worked alongside OT for years and can attest to your steadfast loyalty to the public service. Thank you for driving the agency forward. We will hold the line til you come back.
AI will solve everything. And then we can invest the retirement and disability trust funds in crypto and it will rainbow unicorns for everyone! Problem solved!
Who’s going to paint the shutters on the burning house?
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