Social Security Admin to require in-person ID checks for new&existing recipients

What’s the furthest a recipient will be forced to travel? How many offices per population area? What’s the current rate of calls and direct deposit modifications? At that rate what load will it put on the offices? How long is the average interaction? What will the throughput be if the current office staffing?

Know plenty of communities that abuse social security benefits, is it worth fixing? I’m fortunate enough to pay the median house hold income in just taxes to the government. Take my money, no.<p>These are poor people struggling to get by, they are going to cheat the system, who wouldn’t when you live on the edge. It’s a drop in the bucket all for a PR attempt.

I just helped a neighbor with a remote application for unemployment insurance in New York.<p>She’s 77 and has a TracPhone. It has a camera and browser, but the state’s website does no support the browser.<p>Alternatively, she could visit a local business to perform the digital verification. And that’s what she did, costing $20.

Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean?:<p>&gt; He said a problem with eliminating fraudulent claims is that “the information that we use through knowledge-based authentication is already in the public domain.”

Ah, yes, ‘efficiency’.

&gt; Retiree advocates warn that the change will negatively impact older Americans in rural areas<p>I mean, they’re getting exactly what they overwhelmingly wanted. I’m sure some states will try to, essentially, red line the office locations and screw over blue cities, but hard to care about the rural folks getting what they wanted.

Get the govt off the Rich people&#x27;s backs and onto the less well off people&#x27;s backs.<p>Destroy the Consumer Protection Agency &quot;to save money&quot; but open up more detention centres and hire more border guards, etc etc.<p>More scrutiny of the plebs less so on the rich.<p>Right wing politics in a nutshell.<p>And yes I&#x27;m well aware that leftwing politics has descended into nothing but D.E.I. nonsense.<p>Its all about extremes. Disturbing that this is the direction the West is headed in.

To me, this is an attempt to violate the 14th Amendment to prevent people born in the US from being citizens.

You know how hard it can be to bring your newborn to an SS office -- made even more difficult now that they&#x27;re closing some -- to register them for an SSN?<p>If they require in-person registration they should allow doctors or nurses to be deputized to verify newborns for SSN purposes.