With cuts to Social Security Administration staff looming, beneficiaries should expect a lag in service and may want to start putting money aside to help pay the bills, former agency commissioner ...

“It’s about 0.2% of total government spending. Cutting Social Security staff and closing offices is not going to reduce the deficit or make the government more efficient.

The Social Security Administration is facing a crisis, with planned cuts to staff and service delivery that could jeopardize Americans' access to their hard-earned benefits, and Congress should ...

The Social Security Administration has announced new plans to bring down costs, including efforts to reduce its head count to 50,000 from 57,000. For some Americans, that could result in a ...

But SSA workers and advocates for older and disabled Americans say these staff cuts — as well as controversial agency moves under Dudek's leadership — amount to a cut to services.

Social Security staff cuts could ‘significantly impact’ beneficiaries Experts are curious on whether major staffing reductions to the Social Security Administration will hurt beneficiaries.

Ex-commissioner and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said in a recent interview with CNBC that staff cuts and other changes made by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of ...

Under acting Commissioner Lee Dudek, a former senior adviser to the Office of Program Integrity, the SSA has announced it plans to cut 7,000 staff members, bringing total staffing numbers to about ...

Social Security Gives Update on DOGE Cuts Published Apr 08, 2025 at 7:14 AM EDT Updated Apr 08, 2025 at 10:47 PM EDT By Aliss Higham ...

Jessica LaPointe has worked at a Social Security field office in Madison, Wis., for the past 16 years. And she says right now, the work is harder than ever.

Social Security employees are feeling "overwhelmed" and wait times for phone services are up as workforce cuts from the Trump administration are being felt throughout the agency.