Based, let them crawl into the commercial grade oven and be unable to escape cause they gutted the regulators that forced them to have emergency stops installed inside
> “DOGE people are learning and they will make mistakes, but we have to let them see what is going on at SSA,” Dudek told the group, according to the notes. “I am relying on longtime career people to inform my work, but I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions.”
Emphasis mine, below. Many retirement claims aren’t being processed already.
> Wait times for basic phone service have grown, in some cases to hours, according to some employees, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal details. Delays to reviews of disability claims and hearings before administrative law judges are already starting.
>
> **Employees at a field office in Indiana have been forced to pick up calls for other offices, one employee said, and are fielding phone inquiries for an area covering two-thirds of the state. The phone “never stops ringing now,” the employee said. Phone backups have prevented the staff from processing retirement claims.**
>
> Meanwhile, supervisors have little time to give guidance or advice, the employee said, because they are constantly pulled into lengthy meetings to dissect the latest guidance from the Trump administration on return-to-office orders, firing of probationary employees and a Musk-led campaign requiring federal workers to send weekly bullet points laying out their accomplishments.
>
> “Morale is in the toilet,” the employee said. “We all know what DOGE wants to do, which is just break us, so they can privatize us.”
>
> Due to a DOGE-driven spending freeze on federal credit cards, some offices can’t pay phone bills, the employee said, while one office was forced last week to cancel three disability hearings because the staff could not use charge cards to pay for interpreters who speak foreign languages or American Sign Language. One claimant has a terminal illness and another is in danger of losing their house, the employee said. No new hearings have been scheduled.
This is a government shutdown.
> “It’s just chaos, people are terrified and no one knows anything, including our supervisors,” the employee said.
>
> […]
>
> For his entire nearly 30-year career at SSA, one employee said, changes came slowly and were accompanied by a barrage of information explaining to staff exactly what was being altered and why. However, since DOGE took hold, changes have come so fast that they are impossible to follow, the employee said.
>
> “No one really knows what they’re doing, no one has answers, and at some point something is going to break.”
My mom, who voted for Trump, is applying for her social security this month. When Trump won I told her to apply for the full amount asap and she brushed it off. Well well well…
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Based, let them crawl into the commercial grade oven and be unable to escape cause they gutted the regulators that forced them to have emergency stops installed inside
This is a huge story. ([archive](https://archive.ph/1Yi8g))
> “DOGE people are learning and they will make mistakes, but we have to let them see what is going on at SSA,” Dudek told the group, according to the notes. “I am relying on longtime career people to inform my work, but I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions.”
Emphasis mine, below. Many retirement claims aren’t being processed already.
> Wait times for basic phone service have grown, in some cases to hours, according to some employees, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal details. Delays to reviews of disability claims and hearings before administrative law judges are already starting.
>
> **Employees at a field office in Indiana have been forced to pick up calls for other offices, one employee said, and are fielding phone inquiries for an area covering two-thirds of the state. The phone “never stops ringing now,” the employee said. Phone backups have prevented the staff from processing retirement claims.**
>
> Meanwhile, supervisors have little time to give guidance or advice, the employee said, because they are constantly pulled into lengthy meetings to dissect the latest guidance from the Trump administration on return-to-office orders, firing of probationary employees and a Musk-led campaign requiring federal workers to send weekly bullet points laying out their accomplishments.
>
> “Morale is in the toilet,” the employee said. “We all know what DOGE wants to do, which is just break us, so they can privatize us.”
>
> Due to a DOGE-driven spending freeze on federal credit cards, some offices can’t pay phone bills, the employee said, while one office was forced last week to cancel three disability hearings because the staff could not use charge cards to pay for interpreters who speak foreign languages or American Sign Language. One claimant has a terminal illness and another is in danger of losing their house, the employee said. No new hearings have been scheduled.
This is a government shutdown.
> “It’s just chaos, people are terrified and no one knows anything, including our supervisors,” the employee said.
>
> […]
>
> For his entire nearly 30-year career at SSA, one employee said, changes came slowly and were accompanied by a barrage of information explaining to staff exactly what was being altered and why. However, since DOGE took hold, changes have come so fast that they are impossible to follow, the employee said.
>
> “No one really knows what they’re doing, no one has answers, and at some point something is going to break.”
https://preview.redd.it/bgpsg4q3c3ne1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=86a79e804782d1ab04418d77f6fe2e784d2b628c
My mom, who voted for Trump, is applying for her social security this month. When Trump won I told her to apply for the full amount asap and she brushed it off. Well well well…