{"id":15183,"date":"2025-03-25T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/social-security-buffeted-by-turmoil-awaits-a-new-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T02:32:10","slug":"social-security-buffeted-by-turmoil-awaits-a-new-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/social-security-buffeted-by-turmoil-awaits-a-new-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security, Buffeted by Turmoil, Awaits a New Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano goes before Congress on Tuesday as President Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Social Security Administration, he will confront questions about how he would run an agency suddenly in the grips of upheaval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, the billionaire Elon Musk has zeroed in on the agency, which is charged with the staid but critical work of providing retirement, survivor and disability payments to 73 million Americans each month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk has claimed that vast numbers of Americans are fraudulently drawing benefits from the agency, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/upshot\/social-security-fraud-claim-musk.html\" title=\"\">an assertion experts say is demonstrably false<\/a>. Over the objections of longtime career civil servants <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/17\/us\/politics\/social-security-musk-team-access.html\" title=\"\">pushed out of the agency<\/a>, the Trump administration\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency has moved swiftly to scrutinize its internal databases, deploying at least 10 staff members inside, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/14\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-antonio-gracias-social-security-administration.html\" title=\"\">a longtime confidant of Mr. Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, the acting commissioner, Leland Dudek, a former midlevel manager, has made a number of head-spinning moves. On Friday, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/social-security-dudek-judge-doge.html\" title=\"\">threatened to shut down the system<\/a> used for all of the Social Security Administration\u2019s work in response to a judge\u2019s order \u2014 only to back down hours later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The churn has alarmed many older and disabled Americans who rely on Social Security payments and worry it could become harder to gain access to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of confusion, frankly a lot of chaos,\u201d said Bill Sweeney, the vice president for government affairs at AARP, which represents older Americans. \u201cPeople are terrified of what\u2019s happening with Social Security. There\u2019s a level of anxiety about this among our members that Congress, policymakers and the administration needs to take seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some Democratic lawmakers say they are so concerned that the Trump administration is setting the agency up to fail that they sent <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warren.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/warren_wyden_letter_to_bisignano.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a letter<\/a> on Sunday asking Mr. Bisignano to promise not to privatize any of its components.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are gravely concerned about the current trajectory of the S.S.A. and more specifically, that those charged with leading it might profit off its destruction,\u201d Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It remains to be seen how Mr. Bisignano, who described himself in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2025\/02\/05\/fiserv-ceo-on-the-nomination-to-social-security-commisioner-role.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an interview on CNBC<\/a> as \u201cfundamentally a DOGE person,\u201d will navigate those questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Bisignano, most recently at the helm of the payment processing giant Fiserv, has spent much of his career as a fixer for major financial institutions hoping to improve their back-end processes. In the CNBC interview, he said he planned to bring the same approach to Social Security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe objective is not to touch benefits,\u201d he said. \u201cThe objective is to figure out, there could be fraud, waste and abuse in there. And we build A.I. to find fraud, waste and abuse for a living. It\u2019s going to be a tech story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Bisignano has held positions at several of Wall Street\u2019s marquee firms, including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase. He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/04\/us\/politics\/frank-bisignano-social-security.html\" title=\"\">earned $100 million<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/05\/25\/business\/ceo-pay-2017.html\" title=\"\">in 2017<\/a>, more than 2,000 times the average employee\u2019s salary at his firm at the time, First Data Corporation, which later merged with Fiserv.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokeswoman for Mr. Bisignano declined to comment. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said in a statement: \u201cAny American receiving Social Security benefits will continue to receive them. The sole mission of DOGE is to identify waste, fraud, and abuse only.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the agency\u2019s more than 50,000 employees hope Mr. Bisignano can restore a measure of certainty to their work of disbursing roughly $1.6 trillion in retirement and disability benefits each year. Current and former staff members say they know that the agency is not perfect, but that they have for years tried to better help Americans gain access to benefits that lift more people out of poverty than any other federal program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The changes that the Trump administration has made in the name of fighting fraud risks make already-frustrating customer service worse, according to multiple employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal worries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Americans who want to sign up for benefits or change their bank account information soon will not be able to do so over the phone, for example. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/18\/business\/social-security-identity-checks-in-person.html\" title=\"\">That change<\/a> will push more people to visit field offices just as the agency prepares to shed workers, a combination that could sharply increase wait times for an appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During a Monday meeting held with advocates to address the phone changes, Mr. Dudek said that the quick rollout was at the behest of the White House, which demanded an urgent time frame. He said such a change would typically involve far more planning \u2014 a process that would normally take two years instead of two weeks, according to a person who participated in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Dudek acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times on Friday that he had concerns about what would happen if the fast changes generated problems that impaired the agency. He told advocates during the meeting that if they disrupted citizens to the point of being untenable, the agency would roll them back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In another instance, the Social Security Administration briefly ended a contract that had allowed parents of newborn babies in Maine to sign their children up for a Social Security number at the hospital, instead requiring them to do so in person at an office. Mr. Dudek said he had ordered the move after watching Janet Mills, Maine\u2019s Democratic governor, clash with Mr. Trump at the White House. He quickly reversed that decision, as well as another to end electronic death reporting in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,\u201d Mr. Dudek said in the interview. \u201cI screwed up. I\u2019ll admit I screwed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because of Mr. Dudek\u2019s self-admitted bumpy tenure, he said he did not expect to last much longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI can\u2019t imagine the nominee would want to keep me after the way I\u2019ve been doing things here,\u201d Mr. Dudek said, adding that he had had no contact with Mr. Bisignano.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-small css-1189og3 e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, has made a number of head-spinning moves.<\/span><span class=\"css-14fe1uy e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Social Security Administration<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the meantime, he is continuing to push through the administration\u2019s demand for cost reductions, cutting the staff and preparing to reorganize regional offices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While the Trump administration has taken a similarly aggressive approach to bureaucracies across the government, the incursion into Social Security comes with singular political risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The program is the primary source of retirement income for many older Americans, a critical voting bloc. Mr. Trump has spent his entire career in politics promising to protect Social Security, even proposing to eliminate taxes on benefits during the campaign. Some Republicans on Capitol Hill have moved to protect local field offices from closure, while Democrats <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/us\/politics\/musk-social-security-democrats.html\" title=\"\">try to take advantage<\/a> of their opposition\u2019s decision to grab ahold of what has long been the third rail of American politics.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-131bdc09\">\u2018Needle in the Haystack\u2019<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The worries are so acute that routine hiccups \u2014 like changing the date of payments or website problems \u2014 now seem to many beneficiaries to be signs of more profound problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Michelle Ouellette, a 67-year-old former lawyer in California, applied for benefits online in January without success. After more than a month, she then tried several different phone lines, finally getting through to someone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf it was so hard for me to get help before Trump cuts to Social Security, what will it be like after?\u201d she said. \u201cI assume that Trump wants to make it so burdensome that you won\u2019t bother to sign up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Social Security offices across the country, workers say they are seeing a noticeable increase in concerns like Ms. Ouellette\u2019s \u2014 and in more visitors overall worried about changes to come. In recent weeks, employees said they had heard beneficiaries repeat claims about fraud or express fear about the Musk team seeing their personal data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That is adding to the stress and workload for a staff that the Trump administration plans to shrink by 12 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Field office workers are already spread thin. Claims specialists must often wear many hats \u2014 working the front window and answering phones, all while completing their own assigned caseloads. It can take years to get up to speed on complex systems and policies, a key reason attrition is especially problematic at the agency, workers say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chris Delaney, an official for a federal workers\u2019 union who also works as a claims specialist in Hudson, N.Y., said there was an \u201ceerie cloud\u201d looming over his office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt seems like the people calling the shots have no clue what the field office is actually like, or they just want us all slaughtered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Undergirding the suite of changes is Mr. Musk\u2019s fixation on the idea that dead people and undocumented immigrants are fraudulently claiming benefits from Social Security. Experts say the relatively small amount of improper Social Security payments \u2014 estimated at less than 1 percent of paid benefits \u2014 has little to do with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/upshot\/social-security-fraud-claim-musk.html\" title=\"\">dead people<\/a> or undocumented immigrants, who in fact <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/13\/business\/social-security-undocumented-immigrants.html\" title=\"\">often pay taxes<\/a> into the system without ever claiming benefits, improving its fiscal health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nevertheless, Mr. Musk\u2019s team has prioritized as one of its first projects marking people as dead in a crucial database if they are listed as being 120 years or older, along with other criteria. The team\u2019s engineers are working with career civil servants on that effort, which is aimed at ridding the database of faulty records and is not expected to affect anyone receiving payments, according to people familiar with the work, who were not authorized to speak about it publicly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Separately, Antonio Gracias, a private equity investor who is a close friend of Mr. Musk, and DOGE aides have also requested information about whether undocumented immigrants are receiving benefits, according to these people. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A federal judge castigated the Musk team\u2019s fraud work in an order barring it from having access to sensitive personal information. \u201cIt has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack,\u201d wrote the judge, Ellen Lipton Hollander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The order at one point last week prompted Mr. Dudek to threaten to shut down the system that undergirds the agency, though he later backed off. Members of Mr. Musk\u2019s team no longer have access to sensitive agency data, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other initiatives by Mr. Dudek and DOGE are still proceeding. During the Biden administration, the agency said it would no longer withhold a full monthly benefit to recollect overpayments \u2014 which are often caused by agency errors \u2014 but instead hold back a maximum of 10 percent until the balance is repaid. The goal was to leave Americans with access to what is often a critical source of cash. Mr. Dudek reversed the policy and has resumed pulling back the entire check until the excess is paid back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Dudek said he had in mind the best interest of the Social Security system, which his family was a beneficiary of when he was a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cUnless you use a brute force in government, you get stalled out,\u201d Mr. Dudek said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Nicholas Nehamas<!-- -->, <!-- -->Ryan Mac<!-- --> and <!-- -->Eli Murray<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n    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