… Feds in the transformation office received emails Monday informing them that they will be fired, one affected employee told Nextgov/FCW. SSA didn’t respond to questions on the status of the employees in affected offices.
“Your further employment at the agency would not be in the public interest,” read the memo emailed to them on Monday. They didn’t get any advance notice, the affected employee said.
With the office’s elimination, it’s not clear what will happen to the agency’s website, the affected employee further told Nextgov/FCW, as that office housed the SSA team that works on SSA.gov, the online front door to the agency that provides critical benefits to millions of Americans.
Work to overhaul that website, which was recognized with a Service to the Citizen award in 2023, was ongoing.
“If there's a website problem, I don’t know who's gonna fix it,” said Betsy Beaumon, the agency’s former chief transformation officer under the Biden administration who was recently chosen to receive a Fed100 award for her work last year. “There are some contractors who do some of the actual hands-on work, but the people that work with them are on this team.” …
