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After Layoffs, Social Security Asks Remaining Employees To Work 10% Harder
Social Security faces a growing backlog of retirement claims that agency officials hope their remaining workers can clear ...
How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring
The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s ...
Social Security wait times were already long under Biden. They're even longer under Trump.
Hold times at Social Security's toll-free number averaged 60 minutes last year, during the Biden administration. Under Trump, ...
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DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none
Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to ...
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Trump Administration Politicizing Social Security Administration Will Further Undermine Benefits
The Trump Administration is advancing a new rule that would make it easier to fire nonpartisan career civil servants across ...
Social Security Update: Why No Checks Are Being Paid Out This Week
May 5 to 10 marks just one of two weeks this year in which no scheduled benefits are being distributed, according to the ...
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Let’s talk about Social Security
The good news is that even if your career changes from federal service to private sector employment, Social Security is a ...
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After Layoffs, Social Security Asks Remaining Employees To Work 10% Harder
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration on Wednesday asked its employees to work hard to clear a backlog of retirement claims after the agency pushed out thousands of workers earlier ...