Charles T. Hall
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk forced out 7,000 of the public servants who make Social Security work.
Americans are paying the price.
Americans are paying the price.
A man mistakenly declared dead lost his insurance. How federal cuts could make fixes harder
A Maryland man lost his health insurance after the government mistakenly declared him dead, his family told the News4 I-Team. To pay for the dialysis he needed to live, his wife says she spent thousan...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk forced out 7,000 of the public servants who make Social Security work.
Americans are paying the price.
Americans are paying the price.
Man arrested for threatening to blow up NY Social Security field office.
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Police: man threatened to blow up Watertown’s Social Security office
A Watertown man is accused of threatening to blow up a government office in the city.
www.wwnytv.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Man arrested for threatening to blow up NY Social Security field office.
www.wwnytv.com/2025/12/04/p...
www.wwnytv.com/2025/12/04/p...
Trump likes the idea of Australia’s defined contribution retirement program instead of U.S.’s defined benefits plan. Defined contribution=employee risk and vast profits for Wall Street, som what’s not to like for Trump.
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Trump said he’s looking into an Australian-style retirement program for America. Here’s how it works | CNN Business
The Trump administration is looking Down Under for inspiration on how to improve the United States’ retirement savings system.
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Trump likes the idea of Australia’s defined contribution retirement program instead of U.S.’s defined benefits plan. Defined contribution=employee risk and vast profits for Wall Street, som what’s not to like for Trump.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/e...
Social Security plans will leave many with no practical path to obtain the service they need to get on benefits or stay on them.
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Social Security Administration’s digital wall will deny access to beneficiaries | Biometric Update
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is remaking itself around a digital identity system that tens of millions of its beneficiaries cannot use.
www.biometricupdate.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Social Security plans will leave many with no practical path to obtain the service they need to get on benefits or stay on them.
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/socia...
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/socia...
Social Security plans will leave many with no practical path to obtain the service they need to get on benefits or stay on them.
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/socia...
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/socia...
Social Security Administration’s digital wall will deny access to beneficiaries | Biometric Update
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is remaking itself around a digital identity system that tens of millions of its beneficiaries cannot use.
www.biometricupdate.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Social Security plans will leave many with no practical path to obtain the service they need to get on benefits or stay on them.
www.biometricupdate.com/202512/socia...
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This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.
Social Security wants about 15 million fewer visits in its field offices
The new goal to cut the number of field office visits comes as the agency’s frontline locations have lost thousands of employees.
www.nextgov.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This article is 1000% correct. We can’t actually achieve any of these goals without more staff. Friendly reminder that the last time we had this few staff it was 1967. We served 480 claimants per staff then. Now we have to serve 1800 per staff. This is not sustainable or even achievable. Period.
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The Social Security Admin hopes to cut the number of people visiting its offices by half--15 million people--during this fiscal year, which began two months ago.
That's because they undermined in-person service by rapidly pushing out thousands of staff, creating huge pressure on local offices.
That's because they undermined in-person service by rapidly pushing out thousands of staff, creating huge pressure on local offices.
NEW: The Social Security Administration wants to halve the number of people that go to its field offices this fiscal year as it pushes people to interact with the agency online.
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Social Security wants about 15 million fewer visits in its field offices
The new goal to cut the number of field office visits comes as the agency’s frontline locations have lost thousands of employees.
www.nextgov.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Social Security Admin hopes to cut the number of people visiting its offices by half--15 million people--during this fiscal year, which began two months ago.
That's because they undermined in-person service by rapidly pushing out thousands of staff, creating huge pressure on local offices.
That's because they undermined in-person service by rapidly pushing out thousands of staff, creating huge pressure on local offices.
No timeline for new occupational data at Social Security
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Social Security occupational data update appears stalled after agency drops regulatory overhaul
The Social Security Administration has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to update the occupational data used in disability adjudications. When the agency will actually move to newer data i...
www.nextgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
No timeline for new occupational data at Social Security
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It’s another great day to remind everybody that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s another great day to remind everybody that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
Read the thread for the fantastically unrealistic goals set for field offices
Soooo we got some of the expectations for SSA Field Offices(FO) today for FY26, and now I’m drinking tonight, so before I dive into that, let’s talk about what Frankie FiServ and his merry band of vile miscreants that run SSA are expecting of their employees this year 😐😐😐😐
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Read the thread for the fantastically unrealistic goals set for field offices
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Breaking news: The Social Security Administration has abandoned plans to block thousands of older Americans from qualifying for disability benefits after an uproar, according to people familiar with the decision.
Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits after uproar
The policy would have fundamentally altered who qualifies for the two federal disability programs by eliminating or limiting a person’s age as a factor to consider.
wapo.st
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Breaking news: The Social Security Administration has abandoned plans to block thousands of older Americans from qualifying for disability benefits after an uproar, according to people familiar with the decision.
Just learned that ICE has come to my city. They informed the mayor tonight that they had already moved dozens of people into Raleigh today. The mayhem will begin tomorrow. God help you if you have a dark complexion.
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Just learned that ICE has come to my city. They informed the mayor tonight that they had already moved dozens of people into Raleigh today. The mayhem will begin tomorrow. God help you if you have a dark complexion.
Social Security increases the minimum repayment of overpayments from $10 a month to $50.
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PolicyNet/Instructions Updates/GN 02210 TN 90: Methods of Recovery for Title II, Title VIII, Title XVI, and Title XVIII Overpayments - Part I
GN 02210 TN 90 - Methods of Recovery for Title II, Title VIII, Title XVI, and Title XVIII Overpayments - Part I - 10/01/2025
secure.ssa.gov
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Social Security increases the minimum repayment of overpayments from $10 a month to $50.
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I mean, fuck the rest of us Feds who showed up to work every day without pay, apparently🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I mean, fuck the rest of us Feds who showed up to work every day without pay, apparently🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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For ex, Social Security's IG has been silent on:
🧑💻DOGE access to SSA data
👶Suspending birth/death data from Maine, as political retaliation
💀Marking living immigrants dead in SSA data
☁️Moving everyone's sensitive data to an insecure cloud environment
🏛️Operational risks due to historical staff cuts
🧑💻DOGE access to SSA data
👶Suspending birth/death data from Maine, as political retaliation
💀Marking living immigrants dead in SSA data
☁️Moving everyone's sensitive data to an insecure cloud environment
🏛️Operational risks due to historical staff cuts
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
For ex, Social Security's IG has been silent on:
🧑💻DOGE access to SSA data
👶Suspending birth/death data from Maine, as political retaliation
💀Marking living immigrants dead in SSA data
☁️Moving everyone's sensitive data to an insecure cloud environment
🏛️Operational risks due to historical staff cuts
🧑💻DOGE access to SSA data
👶Suspending birth/death data from Maine, as political retaliation
💀Marking living immigrants dead in SSA data
☁️Moving everyone's sensitive data to an insecure cloud environment
🏛️Operational risks due to historical staff cuts
45% of bereaved children not receiving the Social Security children’s benefits they deserve? That’s insanely high.
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The federal government is failing bereaved children in tribal areas - ICT
Native American and Alaska Native families are missing out on Social Security benefits
ictnews.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
45% of bereaved children not receiving the Social Security children’s benefits they deserve? That’s insanely high.
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So, how will the Social Security COLA be computed?
The White House says that key inflation and jobs data for October will “likely never” be released due to the government shutdown.
The last time a shutdown delayed a jobs report was in October 2013, when the report was delayed by a few weeks.
The last time a shutdown delayed a jobs report was in October 2013, when the report was delayed by a few weeks.
White House says the October jobs report may never be released
The last time a shutdown delayed a jobs report was in October 2013, when the report was delayed by a few weeks.
wapo.st
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
So, how will the Social Security COLA be computed?
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NEW: @wired.com spoke with Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, who is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate.
This is....the first DOGE'd candidate?! I think?!
it's a worthwhile interview -- read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
This is....the first DOGE'd candidate?! I think?!
it's a worthwhile interview -- read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
This DOGE Whistleblower Is Running for Office
WIRED spoke with Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, who is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
NEW: @wired.com spoke with Chuck Borges, the former SSA data chief turned DOGE whistleblower, who is running to represent southern Maryland in the state’s senate.
This is....the first DOGE'd candidate?! I think?!
it's a worthwhile interview -- read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
This is....the first DOGE'd candidate?! I think?!
it's a worthwhile interview -- read @makenakelly.bsky.social:
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Looking healthy and normal very powerfully, sir.
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Looking healthy and normal very powerfully, sir.
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sure hope the rumors coming out of the GOP House caucus about the horrors in the Epstein files aren't true. that would sure be bad for big don
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
sure hope the rumors coming out of the GOP House caucus about the horrors in the Epstein files aren't true. that would sure be bad for big don
Things are starting to fall apart at Social Security.
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www.wired.com/story/social...
Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting
WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.
www.wired.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Things are starting to fall apart at Social Security.
www.wired.com/story/social...
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This one quote from Russell Vought sums it all up.
@propublica.org just did an outstanding piece on how Vought could be the real shadow president and the one consolidating power.
@propublica.org just did an outstanding piece on how Vought could be the real shadow president and the one consolidating power.
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This one quote from Russell Vought sums it all up.
@propublica.org just did an outstanding piece on how Vought could be the real shadow president and the one consolidating power.
@propublica.org just did an outstanding piece on how Vought could be the real shadow president and the one consolidating power.
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Investors lost billions after Fiserv revised earnings projections, and now senators are asking whether SSA chief Bisignano's role at the company influenced federal contracts. Erich Wagner reports on probe here:
SSA chief Bisignano faces probe from Wyden and Warren over Fiserv stock and federal contract concerns
The Social Security commissioner has come under fire in recent days as shares in his former company depreciated shortly after his tax-advantaged divestiture from the financial technology firm.
buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Investors lost billions after Fiserv revised earnings projections, and now senators are asking whether SSA chief Bisignano's role at the company influenced federal contracts. Erich Wagner reports on probe here:
Dancing to Social Security’s music on hold.
parade.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Dancing to Social Security’s music on hold.