The LuLac Edition #5, 287, April 1st, 2025

 

UP COMING DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL EVENTS 

BELLES 

 

COSLETT

 

WHAT THEY’VE DONE

TO SOCIAL SECURITY SO FAR

We’ve been warning you what the Trump administration will do to Social Security. Despite the protestations by the MAGAs  that they won’t touch Social Security, here’s what they’ve done far. The Washington Post reports this sequence of events.

The SSA website crashed four times in 10 days in March.

The phone lines are a disaster: “Depending on the time of day, a recorded message tells callers their wait on hold will last more than 120 minutes or 180 minutes. Some callers report being on hold for four or five hours. A callback function was available only three out of 12 times a Post reporter called the toll-free line last week,” the Post reports. And the overloading of the phone lines and reduced staff has forced office managers, who are already plenty busy, to try to field calls.

More than half the regional offices overseeing field operations have been shuttered.

The long-standing process by which naturalized citizens and legal immigrants can apply for or update Social Security cards has been de-automated and requires in-person applications.

There is no longer a system for monitoring customer experience.

And the guy they picked has been mandated by Musk to make 12% in cuts. Those transitions that normally take two years are now being done in two weeks. Leland Dudek already retaliated against the state of Maine because Trump’s itty bitty feelings were hurt by the state’s governor in an exchange over  a difference of opinion. (AP, LuLac)