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Writing about updates to Social Security policy in 2025, unofficial, just a lawyer’s observations and take.
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RFK doesn’t want the public’s input on public benefit administration (i.e. Medicaid) public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-03300.pdf. Throwing out a rule from the early 70s.

After that disgusting treatment of Zelenskyy, the Social Security Administration would like to remind its staff that it wasn’t just for show, this administration took away many Ukranians’ (and Afghans’) right to reside here too. secure.ssa.gov/apps10/refer.... Technical guidance updated!

Hall & Rouse put out a copy of today’s memorandum of the massive organizational changes coming to SSA socsecnews.blogspot.com/2025/02/even...

www.ssa.gov/news/press/r... Sounds like they are pushing all of the experienced people out of the agency? Are they nuts?

“We had everything moving in a better direction for the first time in a long time” said O’Malley, “and now these guys are intent on cratering it.”

New 🧵 on SSA’s initial efforts today to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).

New 🧵 on today’s release from Acting Commissioner Dudek: “Terminating the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, and reassigning statutory responsibilities performed by this office, advances the President’s goal to make all of government more efficient in serving the American public.”

Starting a 🧵 for today’s announcement from Acting Commissioner Lee Dudek about the closure of the Office of Transformation as “wasteful” www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

Ms. Gordon's research informs national efforts to ensure retirees get their basic income. www.sydneyagordon.com/research. This week the Administration claims to be "earning back the trust of Americans" by cutting off our collective knowledge for a whopping savings of 0.00002% of federal outlays.