The American Prospect just reported that Social Security’s acting Commissioner asked that managers present him with a plan to cut the agency’s staff by 50%. The Prospect characterized this as “a mass firing that could affect tens of thousands of employees across the country.”

This comes at a point when staffing at SSA is already at a 50-year low while yet demand for service is at an all-time high with 10,000 Americans retiring every day.

The idea of cutting the staff by 50% is outrageous and irresponsible — and could devastate customer service to the 70 million Americans on Social Security. The SSA has been woefully underfunded since 2011 and Social Security beneficiaries have been paying the price in the form of reduced service and long wait times.

As we’ve seen recently, nothing is off the table for those determined to cut earned benefits and the services that growing numbers of Americans are counting on in their retirement.

Please chip in an urgent gift now to support the National Committee’s emergency battle to stop harmful cuts to SSA!

Then call your member of Congress at 202-225-3121 and remind your lawmaker that slashing SSA services and closing field offices will threaten the economic and health security of millions of aging Americans and their families.

There is no reason for slashing SSA’s workforce by half, other than the ideological crusade of Elon Musk, the Department of Government Efficiency and their sympathizers in SSA leadership to hollow out the agency that administers our most popular social insurance program and privatize as much of the federal government as they possibly can.

With your support, the National Committee is putting maximum pressure on Congress to act NOW to protect your earned benefits, which includes access to valuable SSA customer service!

What Musk and DOGE are trying to do is discredit our most popular social insurance program that has been doing its job quite well for almost 90 years. Musk’s breach of SSA’s database and outrageous claims of mass fraud at the agency were Step #1 in his campaign to dismantle Social Security.

It appears that Step #2 is to slash one-half of the agency staff and shutter field offices, leaving senior Americans without access to valuable customer service. What comes next, a cut to the annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) … means testing Social Security … privatizing the program for the benefit of Wall Street? 

Help us stop them now — before it’s too late!

Sincerely,

Max Richtman

President & CEO