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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for SSA, disability side. Here are some FACTS.

— we are incredibly underfunded and desperately need more people. And there are tight quotas for every job I’ve seen.  And you get put on a PIP and fired for routinely missing them. No one is napping instead of teleworking. Or whatever.

— we lose 99 employees to another agency for every 1 we gain. In my job, it’s often the VA.  We have the lowest job satisfaction rate of any large agency in the federal government and a lot of jobs are graded lower for the same work than someplace like the VA. So people leave for the grade bump. That plus the understaffing plus the quotas means more people leave.

— it takes about 2 years for a new employee to get up to speed. It’s a very complex program. But we don’t give them that time to learn off quota. In my area, half quit the first year.

— we pay the state DDS to make initial and recon determinations. How long you wait depends on your state and how efficiently they run their DDS.  Unlike the hearing + levels run by Feds with tight quotas.  Person who said 10 months for initial determination seems correct, state dependent. “Years” is not. If states get too far behind (approaching a year) federal employees get detailed to the states to help them get caught up. In fact, this is in place now in some states (ahhmmm Florida, the biggest offender).

— I’m not worried about losing SSI or SSDI. In the end, there is a bipartisan need. I am worried about: SSI being decreased (amount you get is state dependent, but it’s about $300-400 a month— no one is getting rich here), the SSDI trust fund running out of money and an across the board cut, and that we will continue to lose people who know what they are doing because working for a social welfare program under Trump is chaotic and soul sucking, and I expect our budget to get slashed even more, which makes the backlog even worse.

We still have the last of the Boomers, and they have a lot of institutional knowledge. And we are about to lose them. And it is certainly perceived that moving the the VA is better under Trump.

If you are going to worry, at least worry about the right things: staffing, minor tweaks to SSI and the SSDI trust fund going under and not being bailed out. [/quote]

I don't understand your $300 to $400 comment. SSI is in the $900 range depending on if your state gives a small bonus monthly.[/quote]

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