Social Security News

      From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities : The Trump Administration deliberately caused the loss of an unprecedented number of ...

      From 19th News: Kathy Quitno-Bolt was still numb when she started calling Social Security days after her husband’s sudden death in Jul...

      From a contracting notice posted by Social Security: This is a Request for Information. The agency wants to deploy secure, accessible...

      The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) has produced a report on customer service at Social Security since DOGE ente...

       From The Columbian: For the past several weeks, Sandra Graber has been desperately trying to help her friend, a 79-year-old Vancouve...

      From Government Executive: The Internal Revenue Service is asking seasoned employees without any direct tax experience to perform entr...

      The Strategic Organizing Center , which I’m unfamiliar with, has issued a report on the state of service at the Social Security Admini...

 

      Social Security has a response to the “ fake news ” Washington Post article about the deterioration of service at the agency published...

      Newsweek has an article on Social Security’s response to the story in the Washington Post on the deterioration of service at Social S...

      From the Washington Post: The Social Security Administration — the sprawling federal agency that delivers retirement, disability and s...

      From CU-Citizen Acce ss: Getting an appointment at Champaign’s [Illinois] social security district office continues to take 30 days or...

      From Biometric Update.com : The Social Security Administration (SSA) is remaking itself around a digital identity system that tens of ...

      From NEXTGOV/FCW : …  The Social Security Administration wants to halve the number of people that go to its field offices in the 2026 ...

From a letter to Congress from Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano : …  After just my first six months on the job, I am pleased to...

From the Washington Pos t:  Hours-long wait times. Endless looping music. Useless robot messages.   Millions of seniors and disabled people ...

      From Fedscoop : A nonprofit legal group is calling on the Social Security Administration to release records on recent internal changes...

      From Government Executive: When a member of the public has an issue accessing a federal benefit or service, they often contact their m...

       The New York Times has a long piece on service delivery problems at the Social Security Administration. Below are some excerpts. Not...

       An email from a legal assistant at my law firm to others in the firm: Is anyone else feeling the major frustration of attempting to...