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Social Security Administration field offices are scheduled to reopen in early April after being closed since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the agency is expecting a rush of visitors. This ...
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Years of budget cuts by Congress have left the Social Security Administration (SSA) short of staff on its toll-free customer service line. Lawmakers ignored the Trump administration's request to ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission did not investigate or recall products that might cause injuries but do not pose an imminent danger to safety. [5] CPSC furloughed port inspectors who test to make sure that imported products meet safety standards, for instance verifying that children's toys do not contain excessive amounts of lead or that sleepwear meets flammability standards.
An SSA field office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. SSA also administers the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which is needs-based, for the aged, blind, or disabled. Prior to the 1972 Amendments to the Social Security Act, low-income aged, blind, or disabled persons received benefits from state-run programs called Old-Age Assistance, Aid to ...
The Social Security Advisory Board commissioned a study of the Social Security Administration's representative payee program and held a policy forum in 2020 on the topic. The study noted the difficulty SSA field staff face in determining the need for representative payees and finding suitable payees particularly when family members are not ...
Jessica LaPointe, president of the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) Council 220, which represents SSA field office workers, called the SSA “an agency in crisis” during a ...
The states who do let the Social Security Administration manage their SSP (see section Apply for the State Supplement Program). Except from the states of Arizona, Mississippi, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, and West Virginia; every state currently offers a state supplement to the federal SSI through the State Supplement Program.