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July 18, 2025
Social Safety Administration Struggles to Present Buyer Service Amid Fallout from DOGE Cuts
Months after Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) fired hundreds of skilled, hardworking Social Safety Administration (SSA) staff, the company is having bother maintaining with calls to its 1-800 quantity, in response to a report from the Washington Publish. SSA pulled about 1,000 subject workplace staff to reply the telephones as an alternative of engaged on claims.
“Social Safety Commissioner Frank Bisignano appears to assume he could make it appear to be customer support numbers are enhancing by shifting staff who course of claims to answering the cellphone. However that’s solely going to make the size of time to course of a declare take longer,” stated Joseph Peters, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer of the Alliance. “Congress clearly must go laws to power this Administration to maintain these places of work open and functioning.”
Fortuitously, Rep. John Larson (CT) has launched a invoice (H.R. 1876) that may preserve subject places of work open to make sure that beneficiaries can nonetheless get in-person assist if they should.
Motion Wanted: Please ship a message to your consultant demanding that they help the Conserving Our Subject Workplaces Open Act (H.R. 1876).
This was initially revealed within the July 18, 2025 version of the Friday Alert. Learn the total size model and see different Friday Alert editions right here.
