“Significant Workforce Reductions” Underway at Social Security Administration

The Social Security Administration is embarking on an “agency-wide organizational restructuring that will include significant workforce reductions,” according to an email sent to employees.

The email suggests that entire components of SSA , whose staffing is already at a 50-year low, would be abolished, with subsequent reduction-in-force orders.

Several regional commissioners, who were asked to carry out this plan, are retiring.

The White Plains hearing office closure is forcing ALJs to work out of other faraway offices, and forcing claimants who want an in-person hearing to travel as well.

“What is the point of going to hearing office, to sit on TV screens?” said Judge Ramrup .

The administration has stressed “precision” in future workforce reductions.