📋 Social Security Customer Service Times Build as Hiring Freeze Continues (AARP Article)

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Now let’s see here - this is the same government office - The Social Security Administration - that has issued billions of dollars in overpayments to people who cannot pay them back or they have a problems getting it back.  

This is the same government office that has to deal with and explain people’s earned benefits when the education level in such benefit understanding is minimal to many of these recipients.

This is the same government office that is in charge of determining and administering SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME (SSI) which is NOT a Social Security program although it (kind of) relates in some circumstances.  AND confuses many as to which benefit they are getting.  Administering this program is not a small or inexpensive endeavor - since it not only requires eligibility standards in income, resources, age, blindness or disabilty - it also requires monitoring these same individual’s income / resources on a MONTHLY BASIS so they do not go over the set limits for retaining the benefit.

So they want more money - what government office doesn’t want more money.  

For years we have been told how low the overhead is in this Administration - was that just a manipulation of the numbers ?  Or maybe they just aren’t counting all the work that needs to be done in this overhead classification.  

Perhaps we do need to pay more for such service - right !  If this was a private enterprise, the administration of it would be born by those who are getting the benefit.  

Now all we hear from many people and many legislators is how the earned insurance benefit of the Social Security programs, administered by this government office, needs to be more and more - perhaps we need to also pay in more to get more in benefits as well as help out in the administration of these programs.

Just IMO !

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