Social Security Crisis, A Town Elon Musk Cut Off From Social Security: More Perfect Union

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Visit to a Social Security office in Iowa that has been closed for months. 70 million people receive Social Security checks each month. Thousands of Social Security employees left the agency in 2025. By More Perfect Union, May 21, 2026. (10:43 mins).

Description: Despite his promises to protect Social Security, Trump is cutting it by defunding the agency that runs Social Security. Funding cuts to the agency are resulting in local/field office closures, reduced staff at Social Security offices, long wait times for telephone assistance and encouraging computer use for transactions.

DOGE (Dept. of Govt. Efficiency) slashed 7,000 agency staff - and local offices nationwide are shuttering. 70 million Americans are navigating a crisis to get the payments they need. "It's almost like you're being punished."
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*Also: MUSK'S LEGACY: "Stroke survivor can't access benefits as Social Security engulfed in 'turmoil' under Trump," DU, Dec. 2025.
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Also hampering the SSA’s work have been new regulations put in place by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency that bar beneficiaries from making changes to their direct deposit information over the phone, instead requiring them to either appear in person at a field office or go online.

The Indiana SSA worker told the Post of a recent case involving a 75-year-old man who recently suffered a major stroke that left him unable to drive to the local field office to verify information needed to change his banking information. The man also said he did not have access to a computer to help him change the information online.

“I had to sit there on the phone and tell this guy, ‘You have to find someone to come in... or, do you have a relative with a computer who can help you or something like that?’” the employee said. “He was just like, ‘No, no, no.’”...Read More,
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220897945