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Ariel Kennan
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Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University

Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.

📍NYC, and often DC
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"A lot of currently eligible people are actually going to lose benefits," said Pamela Herd, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, who studies the effects of administrative burdens. "Not because they're ineligible, but because they can't handle the set of massive roadblocks Republicans are putting in their way."
June 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
SSA changes phone fraud policies after finding very little fraud
The change follows reporting by Nextgov/FCW about the policy and its contributions to a slowdown in retirement claims processing.
www.nextgov.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I did an actual 😮 when reading that passage this morning.
April 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Pretty much every agency did this, most well before April. And ai.gov is also redirected to whitehouse.gov
April 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM