Social Security News

      I’ve heard that Social Security is having large scale systems problems today but have no details. Can anyone fill me in?

      From Fedscoop :   Social Security Administration is facing issues tied to IT acquisition, having fallen behind on training to get cont...

      Pro Publica has a fascinating piece titled The Untold Story of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security . You’ll want to read t...

      A letter from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) (footnotes omitted): July 7, 2025 Mr. Aram Moghaddassi Chief Information Offi...

Moghaddassi       From Fedscoop : The Social Security Administration has moved on to its third chief information officer of the Trump admini...

       I'm hearing that Social Security is having a significant problem with its ERE system. Attorneys aren't able to upload files. ...

      From a Washington Post article titled Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people: … At the Social Sec...

       From the Washington Post : The U.S. DOGE Service arrived at the Social Security Administration this year determined to slash staff an...

      From Nextgov/FCW: The Social Security Administration is introducing a new chatbot for employees powered by generative artificial intel...

      From Lisa Rein at the Washington Post: Retirees and disabled people are facing chronic website outages and other access problems as th...

   From the  Washington Post: The Social Security Administration — already reeling from plunging customer service following a rapid downsizi...

      From Waldo Jaquith , described as a former government technologist, writing for MSNBC: ...  Wired magazine reported last week that t...

            Mar Hicks wrote a few years ago about an episode where Republican leaders tried to blame COBOL for basic governmental agency fa...

     From Wired : The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Securit...

      From the Washington Post : The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of ...

      A press release : Social Security Identifies Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Savings Actions Support the Administration’s Prioritie...

      Elon Musk’s “ Department of Government Efficiency ” is claiming to have already saved over $232 million at Social Security, primarily ...

      From ExecutiveGov : Chuck Borges , a retired U.S. Navy Commander, shared on LinkedIn Tuesday that he has been appointed as  chief data...

      I'm surprised that Frank Bisignano wants the job as Social Security Commissioner. He's now the highly paid CEO of a very succe...

      A tweet from Social Security: The IT issue that affected personalized services for several hours on Friday has been resolved.  In-per...