From: ^Commissioner Broadcast <Commissioner.Broadcast@ssa.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2025 12:55 AM
Subject: A Message from Commissioner Frank BisignanoA Message to All SSA and DDS Employees
Subject: A Message from Commissioner Frank Bisignano
Humble are those who serve. Social Security fundamentally serves every American household. I am humbled to have been nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the 18th Commissioner of Social Security.
The President has been clear: we will protect Social Security. Through the advice and consent process, the U.S. Senate has been clear: we will provide the best possible service to beneficiaries. Together, we will strengthen Social Security and make the Social Security Administration a premier organization. We will lead with the highest level of service, financial control, increased teamwork, and greater efficiency. People will want to come to work, and we will do good work.
As Commissioner, I will travel to our offices in the field, visit phone centers, and ensure we have the right systems in place for every Social Security staff member to be successful.
My father was a 46-year Department of Treasury employee. He was the hardest working person I’ve ever known. I see the federal workforce from that vantage point.
I’ve seen a horrific terrorist attack, a financial crisis, and a mortgage crisis first-hand. In each case, we made a plan, executed with excellence, and delivered the best possible outcome.
For us at Social Security, our opportunity to touch every American household and deliver the best possible outcome is fully in our control.
I can’t wait to get to work with all of you.
Frank Bisignano
Commissioner
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Better than the last guy whose first message was I committed no fraud….rofl. Super low hopes but doubt he will be worse than Dudek.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t count on that. Frank is regarded as one of the cruelest and greediest CEOs this nation has ever seen. And think about how nasty the sonofabitch must be to have watched his own father toil away in the civil service and decide that terrorizing that same civil service (which works far, far harder than his apparently awful father ever did, thanks to the GOP’s decades of under funding and overextending) is a good thing to do?
DeleteYeah I guess but what money can he make by gutting SSA? I don’t get that part of it. Privatization is political suicide they on some level seem to realize that.
Delete@9:33: It isn’t just about money. He, like his fellow 21st century CEOs, enjoys having power and abusing it just as much as he loves money.
DeleteCome to the Philadelphia and New York Regions and see what idiocy consolidating into a Boston-led Northeast Region has done. Two of the largest and diverse Regions (over 300 offices including large sites) have no support from a Boston Region that had only 60 small offices and a very small RO staff. That is no way to support those offices and something needs to be done.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happening in our new Region and probably in all new Regions. We in the front line cannot get needed critical support for complex cases beyond our capabilities. Claimants are coming in mad and we cannot provide an answer to their issue. All of our "old Regional" contacts have been reassigned or retired and there is no one there to pick up the slack.
DeleteDitto here in SE!
DeleteSame situation here.
DeleteThe new RC, all of a month, for the new Midwest Region (MI, IN, OH, IL, Oregon, Washington and a bunch of there) is “retiring” I am certain she was either forced out or told to do something illegal and said see ya!
DeleteHey Anonymous 5/7 at 4:08 PM, let’s talk about it. I’m guessing you’re part of the FO. Maybe a DM or OS. Someone who has to depend on getting information from your Area Director. If you’re not getting information it’s 100% because your AD isn’t filtering info down the chain. If you were getting the information provided by the RC to the AD’s you would understand that the three sub regional offices have been gutted by reassignment. It’s not that Boston is small or doesn’t want to support. No one is left.
DeleteAs for the “idiocy” of consolidation, that’s due to the NY and Philly RC’s leaving at the first indication of trouble. They both put their own interests first and took the DRP. Don’t worry, they weren’t the only ones which is why we only have 4 regions now. Your RC’s and most of your leadership ran away while Boston leadership held strong. Anatoly Shnaider, the Boston RC, stepped up to the plate and took you under his wing as if you’re his own. He didn’t take you in begrudgingly, he adopted you AND gave you his last name. You might want to think of that and put respect on it.
Don’t come on here saying he doesn’t support you when your senior leadership hears everything directly from him. It’s up to them to filter it down to you. So start looking in your own backyard if you’re missing support.
What's he going to do about the chaos Doge has created?
ReplyDeleteI read blah… blah… blah and blah. I think that sums it up in a nutshell.
ReplyDeleteWonder if he will force OHO back into the office?
ReplyDeleteGood. Why should they be the only ones still getting telework? Suffer along with the rest of us sitting in traffic endlessly for no good reason.
DeleteHaters gonna hate.
DeleteYou sound MAGA. “If I can’t have it, no one else can either! It’s not fair! Waaaa!”
DeleteQuestion whether the people temporarily working from home via reasonable accomodations will be forced to come back into the office.
DeleteOHO stats speak for themselves if there were better data collection for operations and other components then they can cry .. but unfortunately there isn’t to justify WFH
DeleteIT IS WHAT IT IS
Meet the new boss same as the old boss
ReplyDeleteWe wont get fooled again!
DeleteRebuilding trust that has been lost should be your number one priority.
ReplyDeleteHe said, “I can’t wait to get to work with all of you.” That implies he is not planning RIFs, because he said “all of you”. If he was planning RIFs he would have said “many of you”.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest mistake was the dismantling of RO support staff. The carelessness is letting their institutional knowledge walk out the door will take a long time to reconstitute.
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DeleteDouble that fact.
DeleteI knew this was coming down the pike which is why I retired last year. There is absolutely nothing Sleazy E's stooges could say or do that would give me any reason to come back to the agency.
ReplyDeleteSenate GOP Approves Bisignano, Paves Way for ‘DOGE Destruction of Social Security’
ReplyDeleteElon Musk and Donald Trump, along with the discreet assistance of Frank Bisignano, have recently been dismantling Social Security,” claimed Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works. “This vote was a chance for the Senate to stand against the dismantlement of Social Security and to insist that Trump appoint a commissioner dedicated to halting the harm. Instead, every Republican in the Senate has endorsed the DOGE-led destruction of Social Security.”
According to Altman, “Bisignano was a Wall Street CEO renowned for deeply cutting the staff of his companies, including enacting widespread layoffs. He is also dishonest. He denies any involvement in the chaotic and destructive changes within the Social Security Administration: the gutting of the agency, the theft of our most sensitive data, the damaging and abruptly implemented policy shifts, their sudden reversals, and more. Yet, multiple long-term civil servants, identified by a courageous whistleblower, can confirm his deceit.”
Altman further cautioned that “with Bisignano’s enhanced authority as a confirmed commissioner, he is likely to hasten the ruin of our Social Security system. A small glimmer of hope remains as the DOGE operatives in charge of Social Security have backpedaled on some of the most significant cuts amidst widespread public backlash. They recognize the broad popularity of Social Security across all voter demographics.”