As Americans got increasingly uneasy about the future of the Social Security program, former acting commissioner Leland Dudek wrote an opinion piece in the New York Post in an attempt to soothe some of these concerns.
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“In these first 100 days, we paid over $14.8 billion in long-delayed retroactive benefits to 2.2 million Americans under the Social Security Fairness Act,” Dudek wrote in his department’s defense, in the piece published May 6.
The new head of the organization, Frank Bisignano, was sworn in the following day and said, “President Trump has been clear about Social Security. We will protect it.”
Taking a page out of the commander-in-chief’s playbook, Dudek also took aim at journalists. “Some in the media have erroneously reported that our optimization effort includes terminating 12% or more of our workforce,” he said in the piece, titled “Don’t trust the media’s Social Security hysteria.” “Not true: In fact, the number of SSA employees involuntarily removed from federal service so far this fiscal year amounts to one-tenth of one...
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