Declaration of Tiffany Flick – US District Court, Maryland District Northern Division
Given the callous, sloppy, and vindictive manner in which Musk and the Trump Administration have chopped down the size of the federal workforce, do you trust them to handle your private Social Security information with care?
“…Last week, SSA announced plans to cut over 7,000 employees and close regional offices.4 This would represent a reduction in workforce of over 10 percent and will have devastating impacts on the program: Social Security offices nationwide receive about 170,000 in-person visits and 250,000 calls each day from Americans who need help with their benefits.5 This includes seniors who rely on their Social Security check – money they earned through a lifetime of hard work – and millions of disabled individuals and their parents who receive Social Security disability payments.6 These cuts will hurt all Americans that receive Social Security checks. Indeed, they already have: SSA workers have reported that the wait times for basic services have dramatically increased, sometimes by hours.7
“And these announced cuts appear to be just the beginning. Public reports indicate that SSA may further reduce its workforce to just 50 percent of its current size.8 If allowed to continue, the results will be devastating. In the 1980s, substantially smaller cuts to the Social Security workforce resulted in 80,000 eligible Americans failing to receive their benefits.9 These new cuts could result in millions of Americans being cheated out of the money they earned throughout their careers, while limiting SSA’s ability to catch and correct payment errors.”