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March 6, 2025

📋 Acting Social Security Chief Talks About Spending Cuts (AARP Article)

  • March 6, 2025
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FROM THE ARTICLE: Acting Social Security Chief Says Agency Moves Will ‘Prioritize Customer Service’.

Dudek addresses spending cuts, office closures, data privacy fears in response to AARP members’ concerns.

 

By Andy Markowitz, AARP.

 

Published March 06, 2025.

 

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) told AARP this week that the agency is committed to improving customer service as it moves quickly to cut costs and reduce its workforce.

“We are identifying efficiencies and reducing costs, with a renewed focus on mission-critical work,” Leland Dudek wrote March 4, answering questions posed by AARP in a letter to the SSA last month. “These steps prioritize customer service by streamlining redundant layers of management, reducing non-mission critical work and potential reassignment of employees to customer service positions."

 

USE THE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE: https://www.aarp.org/social-security/ssa-prioritizes-customer-service/

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CarmenE673098
Contributor ⭐⭐
March 7, 2025

You can't improve Customer Service when you are firing Customer Service employees and God knows who else. It is absurd that a Billionaire foreigner is on the way to destroying our hard earned retirement funds.

We get our finances set, and now because people (unknowingly) voted against their own interests we all will suffer. When they think the time is right they will start to lower our existing payment amounts. 

^8 million voters receive Social Security and Medicare. If you want to save it you need to vote against the Party that is destroying it. Firing the workers that make sure we get paid like clockwork is the sign that they want to destroy Social Security. 

This isn't about ideology it is about our financial survival. 

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    CarmenE673098
    Contributor ⭐⭐
    March 7, 2025

    Sorry, That's 68 million votes. That's an overwhelming voting block.

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      BalbonisMoleskine
      Conversationalist ⭐⭐
      March 16, 2025

      Like AARP, that voting block simply doesn't have the clout that many assume and hope. If it did, the tax on SS benefits would have been indexed to inflation long ago or repealed altogether. 

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