Social Security News
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Dec 26, 2024
Dec 25, 2024
A Christmas Question: Can You Overturn It?
From the Baltimore Sun:
… Martin O’Malley has been called to testify before the House Oversight Committee next month about an agreement he signed to allow some Social Security employees to work remotely through 2029.
O’Malley signed the agreement in late November, two days before leaving his Social Security Administration position.
James Comer, a Republican representative from Kentucky who serves as the chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, wrote in a letter to O’Malley that his agreement with the American Federation of Government Employees to guarantee a minimum amount of telework for 42,000 Social Security employees through 2029 “will tie the hands of your successor at SSA for the duration of the next administration, and beyond.”
Dec 24, 2024
Dec 23, 2024
WSJ Wants To Know "Who Needs 1,000 Social Security Offices?"
The Wall Street Journal asks "Who Needs 1,000 Social Security Offices?" Of course, they think the field offices can be replaced by online services. I'll bet the authors couldn't define the difference between Disabled Adult Child and SSI Disabled Children's benefits. In other words, they assume that paying retirement benefits is basically all that Social Security does because they really know little about what the agency does.