Category: Social Security

Trump lied when he said he wouldn’t cut Social Security

This is a bad idea that is unfair to older workers

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

🔥After promising NO cuts to Social Security, the Trump Admin. is prepping a proposed rule REDUCING share of APPLICANTS who QUALIFY for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) by up to 20%!It’s the LARGEST cut EVER to SSDI. CRIMES AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES! 🤬www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a…

— Peter Morley ♿️ (@petermorley.bsky.social) 2025-10-16T20:04:27.443Z

SSA field offices have lost 20% of their staff

This is terrible. I know. I worked there many years ago.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has pushed out 20% of the staff at Social Security offices.Often the most experienced, highly skilled staffers.Seniors, people with disabilities, and families are paying the price.

— Social Security Works (@socialsecurityworks.org) 2025-08-07T14:25:43.156Z

Then you have field office staff answering national 800 number calls which makes this even worse.

Social Security sends out Trump propaganda email which includes lies

As a retired SSA employee, this makes me sad and angry. I don’t think it’s confusing. It’s propaganda. Trump is destroying faith in SSA as a non-partisan agency.

SSA emailDownload

Can confirm this email is authentic — and about nothing in it is true.Social Security income is still taxed. This bill does nothing to change that.It’s willful disinformation on the part of SSA. It’s a lie.

— Jacob Bogage (@jacobbogage.bsky.social) 2025-07-04T03:05:58.225Z

Social Security letter on taxes sends confusing message, some experts say

Recent articles on SSA

all bad news

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

Washington Post article on Social Security’s not reporting statistics

Social Security stops reporting call wait times and other metrics

This is terrible. I worked at SSA (not on this stuff) and know that statistics were always available. Did they just turn off the reports? Eliminate the programming of the reports? Get rid of old data? Fire the people responsible for reviewing the reports? I wonder if they still have actuaries or anyone involved with statistics.

When we get a real president, it will be very hard to rebuild the government. It will be like starting from scratch. You will need money (which Republicans will oppose), staffing, facilities, etc. I don’t think the government will ever be what it was just six months ago.

Fraud on SSA phone claims is extremely small

Trump and Musk project – they lie all the time so they think everyone else does, too.

Turns out there ISN'T rampant Social Security fraud, but Elon's witch hunt, driven by his insane conspiracy theories, IS keeping seniors from getting their benefits as quickly as they should be.THIS is Republican governing: hunting for nonexistent fraud while breaking Social Security.

— Senator Patty Murray (@murray.senate.gov) 2025-05-15T23:14:55.366Z

Immigrants are getting SSA to reverse actions showing them as dead

Good for them. The Trump policy is terrible.

Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2025-04-18T17:05:27.653Z

“Imagine, in one Trump administration keystroke, losing your income, your health insurance, access to your bank account, your credit cards, your home, and more.… When Social Security incorrectly declares someone dead, it ruins their lives.” – SSW President Nancy Altman

— Social Security Works (@socialsecurityworks.org) 2025-04-18T18:20:06.052Z

I am fed up with repeated lies about Social Security by Trump and Musk

There is very little fraud! This has been proven. I think it’s just a scam to privatize SSA, prevent people from getting benefits or throwing people off benefits who don’t deserve to be cut.

Trump's attacks on Social Security are a betrayal of seniors and working families across America.Over 1 million Kentuckians rely on Social Security — they've earned it, and we won't stop fighting to protect it. bit.ly/42yLG6S

— Rep. Morgan McGarvey (@repmcgarvey.bsky.social) 2025-04-15T22:46:26.790Z

Elon Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to access millions of Americans' personal information, a New York Times investigation has found.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-06-16T17:30:06.800649Z