I’m hearing reports that Social Security’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) offices nationwide are experiencing telephone difficulties today. It’s not clear to me whether this is affecting other parts of Social Security as well.
Day: July 1, 2013
Some Agencies Were Prepared For Supreme Court Decision On DOMA
I wrote last week that Social Security seemed unprepared for the decision of the Supreme Court holding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. Some agencies were prepared for this decision. See the memo from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued just a day after Social Security issued staff instructions to hold all claims filed by those in same sex marriages.
Payment Delays Reported
There is a report of delays in direct deposits of Social Security benefits in the Wichita, KS area. If this report is accurate, the fault lies not with Social Security but with the Department of the Treasury which processes the direct doposits — but Social Security will get the calls.
Continued Decline In Number Of Emloyees At Social Security
The Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) has posted updated figures
for the number of employees at Social Security.These figures do not
show the effects of reductions in overtime at Social Security.
March 2013 63,777
December 2012 64,538
September 2012 65,113
June 2012 65,282
March
2012 65,257
December 2011 65,911
September 2011 67,136
June 2011 67,773
March 2011 68,700
December