Some retirees could miss their May benefit checks, former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley cautioned Monday, blaming deep staffing cuts and repeated computer outages for what he called a looming “interruption of benefits.”
What Happened: Speaking at a packed town hall hosted by U.S. Reps. Laura Gillen (D-N.Y.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), O’Malley said the agency has shed 7,000 workers — half of them from the tech team — since President Donald Trump took office in January, as noted in a report by Long Island Press, a free monthly news and lifestyle magazine.
The ex-commissioner, who ran the agency under President Joe Biden from 2023 to 2024, warned that lean staffing has already slowed claims processing and triggered multiple system crashes. “I’ve never hoped I was wrong so much in my life,” he told about 200 …Full story available on Benzinga.com
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