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In reply to the discussion: A Secret Plan to Close Social Security's Offices and Outsource Its Work [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)14. Resolution for your organizations
Resolution against Implementing the Social Security Administrations Vision 2025
WHEREAS the Social Security Administration (SSA) published its Vision 2025 on March 10, 2014 advocating making online self-service deliver its primary service channel, eliminating direct service to clients except in very limited circumstances, farming out much of its workload to outside agencies and eliminating traditional centralized offices; and
WHEREAS outside organizations would be allowed to charge for services which workers have already paid for with their FICA taxes; and
WHEREAS SSA field offices served a record 43 million visitors in 2013, and call volume to the 800 number created unprecedented delays in contacting an agent; and
WHEREAS, given that SSA field office employees get 17 weeks of training and only become fully proficient in 3 to 4 years, it is patently unrealistic to expect anyone without such training to be able to navigate the system in just a few minutes online; and
WHEREAS requiring online enrollment essentially strips people for whom English is not a first language, people who do not have and do not know how to use computers, and people with disabilities such as early onset Alzheimers of benefits they have worked for all their lives; and
WHEREAS Vision 2025 would force most workers, their families and their survivors to fend for themselves;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the 34th Legislative Democrats urge our federal lawmakers to decisively reject Vision 2025 and instead to mandate increased funding for SSA field workers and traditional full service field offices; and
THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the 34th Legislative Democrats forward this resolution to KCDCC and WSDCC; and
THEREFORE BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the 34th Legislative Democrats send copies of this resolution to our senators and to our Democratic congressional delegation.
Submitted to the 34th Legislative District Democrats meeting of June 9, 2014
Disposition: Passed unanimously
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A Secret Plan to Close Social Security's Offices and Outsource Its Work [View all]
eridani
Jun 2014
OP
Is this a draft for a bill? Or is there a bill number to call my representative about?
freshwest
Jun 2014
#16
Just like I didn't think courtesy was new, I don't know if incompetence is new, either.
merrily
Jun 2014
#51
Don't think it's a secret plan. I signed petitions and wrote letters to my
sinkingfeeling
Jun 2014
#19