From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
The Trump Administration and DOGE have implemented new phone service restrictions that the Social Security Administration (SSA) estimates will require people to make over 1.93 million additional trips to understaffed Social Security field offices each year. Even without any traffic, these additional trips will lead to over a million hours wasted on unnecessary travel each year.
Nationally, assuming no traffic, half of all seniors must drive at least 33 minutes for a field office visit, and nearly a quarter of seniors (13.5 million) live more than an hour’s drive roundtrip from their nearest field office.
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8 comments:
Elections have consequences. Are Trump voters happy now?
Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of their (voting) actions. The vast majority of these rural voters who now have to travel more than an hour are staunch Republican voters, the data is clear. Reap what you sow.
In good news we are getting a dividend check… check that.
If you got to this article by searching for "DOGE check," "DOGE dividend check" or "DOGE stimulus check," I have some bad news: Your check is not in the mail.
Each week, Americans take to the internet to search some variation of the words DOGE, stimulus, dividend, refund and payment to learn when they might get their share of the money supposedly saved by the Department of Government Efficiency as it has slashed and burned through Washington.
Driving claimants who can't do business online to field offices sometimes places impossible burdens on the homeless, impoverished and disabled. It can cause much suffering.
And, what makes it worse is that there are still a significant number of SSA field offices that are not accepting walk-in traffic. You have to have an appointment to visit those offices, which you can't schedule because you can't ever get through to a live person to do it.
While SSA has announced an online process to schedule appointments will become available July 21st (for appointment availability July 28th or later), the topics for which a person can self-schedule are very limited and don't include anywhere near the actual topics required by many beneficiaries. Of course, you still have to speak to a person to schedule THOSE appointments. Which, kind of defeats the purpose of self-scheduled appointments.
I sincerely hope they are happy. And by happy, I hope they are suffering. I am so sick of trumpers and their stupidity.
Sadly they take it out on the front line FO staff. And of course they refuse to accept any responsibility or culpability for what is going on. They will twist themselves into amazing pretzels to avoid blaming their dear leader.
When Doge sees this, they'll start closing offices in blue states.
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