Heads up - Social Security - WHILE FIRING THOUSANDS AND SHUTTERING OFFICES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ...

[mucholderthandirt]

25. It's going to kill people around here. Our local SS office closed many years ago.

Now, in-person visits mean going to Greensboro, and waiting, even with an appointment, for hours. It's about an hour drive to get there, parking is horrible, and the wait is awful. Tiny seats, and a lot of them.

My mother never learned to drive, so I have to take her everywhere. We don't have a lot of bus service here, and we're out in the country anyway. There's really no way she'd be able to get to an interview for anything without me (possibly one of my sisters, but two are drug addicts and one is certified crazy on top of that, and the other lives almost two hours away and has her own health issues).

My brother was thinking about putting in for his SS, but he'd been planning to wait until he was full retirement age. He's going to love this (he keeps up with this crazy kind of shit, and we talk about it all the time). He's an OTR driver, barely ever home. Having to sit for hours for an appointment? Oh, the staff will need some ear protection! LOL