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Social Security faces a growing backlog of retirement claims that agency officials hope their remaining workers can clear with a little encouragement.

The Social Security Administration on Wednesday asked its employees to work hard to clear a backlog of retirement claims after the agency pushed out thousands of workers earlier this year.

In an internal memo to operations employees obtained by HuffPost, a Social Security official said the agency has received more retirement claims than in any previous year, thanks in part to the ongoing retirement of baby boomers.

The backlog has grown to 575,000 pending retirement claims, with more than 140,000 of those pending for more than 60 days.

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

"No" is a complete sentence.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 23 points 1 year ago

Well, it should end in a period.

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

It's day one for someone.

[-] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a good thing all those SS employees got stock options when they signed up for the job!

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, I thought they were serious

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago

The government doesn’t have stock options.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

...I'm pretty sure the reply was sarcastic as well.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world -4 points 1 year ago

How is one to know without the /s? It’s realistic with American public education that people wouldn’t understand how the government works

Understanding sarcasm has nothing to do with education, but has to do with simply existing in society and interacting with people offline on a semi-regular basis.

[-] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying that.

[-] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

A lot of people have no idea how anything works.

[-] j0ester@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The thing is, if they don’t (or any agency not working harder), Donald will state the agency sucks, and it’s a waste of taxpayer money and will shut it down.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Sure. I'll just multiply my current efforts times 10% and...

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

probably cant afford to lose those boomer votes right now.

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