Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Social Security is in danger. As my colleague Bob Kuttner has written, the system has endured a series of body blows, including alleged security measures that force beneficiaries to go into Social Security field offices rather than problem solving over the phone, even as those offices are seeing cuts to an already threadbare workforce and prolonged waits for recipients. The Washington Post has documented the repeated website crashes, floods of unanswered calls, and long waits for service that represent ‘a destruction of the agency from the inside out,’ according to Sen. Angus King (I-ME). Such barriers to access deny benefits, plain and simple. Other recipients are seeing their benefits terminated improperly, as part of a fruitless hunt for largely nonexistent benefits fraud.” (03/26/25)
https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-26-trumps-fox-in-the-social-security-henhouse/