It’s a sad birthday for Social Security. For 90 years millions of people have depended on Social Security to make ends meet. I just spent a lot of time on the phone trying to explain my problem to a Social Security robot and kept getting told to check the website but it wasn’t helping. I worry about the future of Social Security.
Right now the problem is massive staffing cuts at a time when staffing is already at a 50-year low. To make things worse, Social Security will stop mailing actual checks next month. That means more than 500,000 people who depend on Social Security as their primary income will have to make a big change at a time when getting help can take hours and hours.
According to a friend who works at Social Security, top leaders have quit, staff is demoralized and many are