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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people [View all]Irish_Dem
(77,018 posts)1. It would take months to get an appointment.
        And no SS payments until your appointment date and approval.
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                        EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people [View all]
							highplainsdem
							Mar 2025
							OP
                        
        
        And then it is not an actual appointment, just permission to sit in the waiting room
        Irish_Dem
        Mar 2025
        #13
      
        
        And remember to make the process as complicated as possible. We are dealing with senior citizens and new arrivals here!
        FSogol
        Mar 2025
        #24
      
        
        Yes. Lots of paperwork and forms to fill out.  And documents to bring to the appt.
        Irish_Dem
        Mar 2025
        #33
      
        
        I wonder though.  Most of us do not have guns, most of us are not in physical shape to fight physically.
        Eliot Rosewater
        Mar 2025
        #35
      
        
        This will be an epic disaster.  People will have the pitchforks out if this happens.
        kysrsoze
        Mar 2025
        #3
      
        
        That does not bother the people in DC as all the anger will be directed at the people in the local office, as always.
        LiberalArkie
        Mar 2025
        #23
      
        
        That's what Republicans want. Throw your hands in the air and say fuck it,shut it down.
        Bengus81
        Mar 2025
        #4
      
        
        Secret rules, secret laws, secret courts ... next up, secret executions of citizens
        NotHardly
        Mar 2025
        #9
      
        
        Many on the DOGE closing lists are NOT going to close-Repub politicians have stepped in
        wishstar
        Mar 2025
        #17
      
        
        Why wait?  Do it ** now **. Good form of mass action to overwhelm them now with millions of people
        Bernardo de La Paz
        Mar 2025
        #14
      
        
        Do it for all government offices you might possibly interact with. . . . nt
        Bernardo de La Paz
        Mar 2025
        #19
      
        
        CLOSING offices, FIRING employees, and giving the remaining MORE WORK to do will not make the system more honest.
        pnwmom
        Mar 2025
        #32
      
        
        If you'd read the article at the OP you'd have seen the link answering your question. Here's the SSA press release.
        pnwmom
        Mar 2025
        #41
      
        
        Millions of people every year make new Social Security claims or change their direct deposit.
        pnwmom
        Mar 2025
        #43
      
        
        There has been ZERO evidence of significant fraud. First, they claimed that millions of accounts appeared
        pnwmom
        Mar 2025
        #46
      
        
        The issue is about 'Social Security fraud that the DOGE boys unearthed -- which they have provided no evidence of,
        pnwmom
        Mar 2025
        #48
      
        
        Republican efficiency makes things take a hell of a lot longer and very inconvenient
        IronLionZion
        Mar 2025
        #22
      
  