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tired: 'Big Balls' outWIRED: 'Big Balls' is back and now at the Social Security Administration, we have learned from a White House official. SCOOP:
— WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-06-26T22:06:01.473Z
NEW: SSA has lost 3,700 employees this year and plans to shrink its workforce by 7,000 in total.Leadership appears to wants to use tech to make up the difference, but experts I spoke to are skeptical. http://www.nextgov.com/digital-gove…
— Natalie Alms (@almsnatalie.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T20:13:48.994Z
Social Security Has a ‘Maddening’ New AI Phone Bot. Here’s How to Deal With It
SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano promised he'd run a "fact-based, rule-based org that can count." But something's not adding up.1,244 fewer Social Security staff serve in field offices as of 5/1, per SSA.But Bisignano testified that "the reality is we have more people in field offices"
— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T21:54:03.853Z
This is the kind of thing we could develop a volunteer service for — people who work from home who just call and test (since SSA has shut down their own reporting).Same for VA. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p…
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T21:36:05.436Z
✨New✨: Over the past five months, the Trump Admin has forced the Social Security Administration (SSA) through a radical transformation that threatens to disrupt services for the largely older and severely disabled people who most rely on the agency. 🧵w/Devin O'Connorwww.cbpp.org/research/soc…
— Kathleen Romig (@kathleenromig.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T20:52:16.402Z
Sad! 