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Floating trial balloons to see what they can get away with. /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 13 #1

Well specifically this part -- BumRushDaShow Mar 13 #3

Looks like a dupe progree Mar 13 #2

Thanks! BumRushDaShow Mar 13 #4

bucolic_frolic

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1. Floating trial balloons to see what they can get away with. /nt

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Thu Mar 13, 2025, 07:22 AM

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3. Well specifically this part --

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Thu Mar 13, 2025, 07:41 AM

Mar 13

SSA leadership was weighing a proposal to eliminate telephone support for claims processing and direct-deposit account transactions, instead directing clients, including seniors and those with disabilities, to online services and in-person field offices

would have been coupled with having LESS "field offices" for anyone to go to due to field office closures already occurring and/or announced AND slamming those rural recipients who have little or no internet or cell access (let alone the poor anywhere in the country with little or no such access - notably after they most likely would end any of those subsidies for that service, and would end any efforts to build out more in under-served areas).

For the latter - the pandemic exposed the HUGE gap of access nationwide when schools were closed and children needed to access their education remotely.