secret identity?!….Social Security Administration transitioning to more in-office visits……

[NewtonMP2100]

…..to curb identity fraud……hopefully, it will still be around……


………might mean…..longer wait times………?!

[JoeM]

Sure, that will keep all those 150 yr old guys from spending their stolen checks on hookers and booze.

[Acer]

Yes, what I want from government is to sit in a forsaken waiting room for hours like it's 1965 again.

[archipirata]

[ka jowct]

Acer wrote:
Yes, what I want from government is to sit in a forsaken waiting room for hours like it's 1965 again.

This is why we have the DMV, for pete's sake.

[numbered]

This will end up on the other side...

The story is that by imposing 'cost' on recipients--especially on the disability recipients--Elon can reduce spending. It is a lot like a work requirement for Medicaid: folks who cannot work will just not sign up.

Krugmann wrote:
Now the Social Security Administration, following orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE, appears set to subject disabled Americans to immense hardship....

The story so far: On March 12 the Washington Post reported that the Social Security Administration was considering ending phone service for Americans filing retirement or disability claims. The SSA quickly backed off that idea — sort of. The day after the Post report, however, the agency circulated an internal memo — acquired by the newsletter Popular Information — laying out a plan that would be almost equally destructive.

Under this plan, beneficiaries would still be able to call the SSA. But they would have to verify their identity either over the internet or through in-person visits to field offices.

Bear in mind that we’re talking about older and/or disabled Americans, many of whom are unable to access the internet and physically unable to visit SSA offices — which would in any case be overwhelmed by the increased traffic, given that the agency is already facing large staffing cuts. So this would be a move of almost cartoonish cruelty, and a nightmare for millions of Americans.

Why do this? The alleged justification is to combat fraud. But ProPublica has acquired audio of a closed meeting held with Leland Dudek, the Social Security Administration’s acting administrator, in which he acknowledged that fraudulent benefit claims are not, in fact, a serious problem.

[Speedy]

The wait at our local office was three hours or so the last time I was there.

[GGD]

Speedy wrote:
The wait at our local office was three hours or so the last time I was there.

Just wait until they cut the staff by 90%, or have just one office per state.

[JoeH]

GGD wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
The wait at our local office was three hours or so the last time I was there.

Just wait until they cut the staff by 90%, or have just one office per state.
They already cut back the number of offices quite a bit years ago. There used to be an office in this town, it was the county seat before county governments were eliminated mostly in MA. Now the closest one is a 45 minute drive.

[Black]

numbered wrote:
This will end up on the other side...

No it won't. It's been a long time since there was anyone moving posts from one forum to another.