There used to be a rule that any major change the Government made to programs required a 30 day notice…
Now?
It requires the Media to expose it….
Everybody cannot show up at a Social Security office….
Some even do NOT have computor…
They deserve phone service contact with their Government….
And have people to answer that phone…
NOT a AI computer response…
However, Social Security and White House officials said the administration will still move ahead with another far more limited element of the original proposal: Customers will no longer be able to change a direct deposit routing number or other bank information by phone…
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“Approximately 40 percent of Social Security direct deposit fraud is associated with someone calling SSA to change direct deposit bank information,” the agency’s press office said in a statement hours after The Post published its article. The “current protocol of simply asking identifying questions by telephone is no longer enough to prevent fraud.”…
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The phone service proposals came less than a month after members of the DOGE team arrived at Social Security headquarters and began looking for ways to cut what they labeled “fraud, waste and abuse” as part of their mandate from President Donald Trump to slim down government…
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The DOGE-driven proposal to shift all claims processing online and to in-person offices spurred pushback internally, employees said, and from outside experts for the same reasons: that it would be likely to imperil millions of Americans’ ability to receive their earned benefits. The field office staff is already facing DOGE-directed depletions as the Trump administration moves to cut 7,000 jobs at the agency and eliminate numerous field offices.
A disability benefit application is a long and complex process requiring large numbers of medical records and lengthy forms.
“A huge number of Americans do not have access to computers,” said Nancy Altman, who leads the advocacy group Social Security Works. “They have a smartphone or they have low levels of education or English proficiency. You’re talking about people with disabilities. The whole idea of serving the people is to give people a choice.”
Altman said: “The burden is on DOGE to accurately show, where is all the fraud? They haven’t done that.”….
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