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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Secret policy shift could overwhelm Social Security offices with millions of people [View all]Trueblue Texan
(3,449 posts)29. Has anyone filed their taxes this year?
You'll have to jump through a bunch of hoops to access your IRS account online...2 forms of id PLUS a video conference where an interviewer assesses the validity of your documents. Really creepy.
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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