Social Security employee warns 'people could be out of benefits for months' as staffers who fix payment glitches exit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Social Security employees with key expertise are reportedly heading for the exits amid President Donald Trump's drive to slash the federal workforce, raising the risk that any technical glitches could interrupt benefits.

That's as the administration looks to shrink the Social Security Administration by thousands, including via voluntary separation offers.

One Baltimore-based staffer who works on payment systems told the Washington Post that nearly a quarter of his team is gone or will soon be gone due to resignations and retirements.

Those with top software skills are leaving the Social Security Administration to get high-paying jobs in the private sector, he added.

As a result, several software updates and modernization processes that were supposed to be completed soon will likely miss their deadlines, and many of the experts who fix glitches that can stop payments are now exiting, the report said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/social-security-employee-warns-people-153300562.html

Of course Howard Nutlick said real Americans won't mind missing a payment.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Technical glitches done on purpose

The King of Pain and his jesters think doing bad things is the easy part.

[LS0999]

2. I wouldn't want to be seen driving or even riding in Tesla when this happens

I believe they would be awakening a sleeping giant. The Felon better advance the payments for a few months.

[Hope22]

27. I don't think most people are stupid enough to think that every Tesla car driver

Is a fan Elon or responsible for the demise of the country. Many people thought they were helping the planet when investing in a Tesla vehicle. I think it is dangerous to talk up such attacks.

[LS0999]

34. I don't underestimate stupidity of people.

When those social security deposits stop coming for a few months and the people in the last quarter of their life start to get hungry then things will start to get serious. They will blame Musk and anything he's associated with. Trump will try to evade responsibility. We'll probably even see a few people burn their own Tesla cars.

[Hope22]

35. Tesla owners burning their own cars is a whole different thing

Than pi$$3d off people burning the cars of random people. Just saying we shouldn’t foster or plant the seeds that attacking cars is an acceptable form to voice political displeasure. Innocent people will be hurt and possible killed. After we clear the roads of Teslas what car make will they chose to attack next because as we know we have people itching to shoot something!

[moonscape]

3. "Could be out of benefits

for months …” is brutal for those who live month to month, but the even worse part is: will they/we get them back and what will it take?

“Months” could turn out to be optimistic. I suspect many benefits will be ‘disappeared.’

[Hope22]

28. I encourage people to have a hard copy of SS contribution history and payment history.

All is available on online personal SS accounts.

[claudette]

29. It's easy to save it as a PDF

and print it

[Hope22]

30. Exactly!

Good insurance for Class Action suit if necessary!

[synni]

31. Those of us on SSI don't have that

[dweller]

4. Do we ( SSA recipients) have a secret call sign or something to announce it's time

To hit the streets or are we just waiting to hear “ I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL."

And then we’ll know it’s time ?




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[haele]

5. When the poor are left with nothing to eat ...

Well, y'all know how the rest of that line goes.

[dweller]

6. Rousseau

Or Sami Shah , depending how hungry one is





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[ButchMcMuffin]

17. Luigi did and nothing has changed

It's going to take a lot more public executions for them to get the hint.

[barbtries]

7. It's time.

I've been protesting since inauguration.

Next Saturday, 05Apr2025, is a big one. Everyone should show up.

They'll be in every state and DC, and, as I just learned while looking for links for you, abroad.
https://www.democratsabroad.org/scottstroud/hands_off_protest_rally_on_april_5th

this is the one I'm going to:
https://mobilize.us/s/dhv12t

This is probably going to be the biggest protest since he took office. In my area, there are protests planned in at least 3 cities near me.

https://www.womensmarch.com/initiatives/peoples-veto-day-washington-d-c

On BlueSky I post these 2 links daily: https://generalstrikeus.com/ and https://generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

I believe that nothing short of massive street action has a chance of saving democracy in the USA. I also advocate for a massive tax revolt.

[tinrobot]

10. Now is the time. Big protests on April 5th. Show up.

... and then keep showing up at protests, town halls, wherever you can.

We outnumber them. Time to prove it.

[Shipwack]

12. The sargent will come over,

pin a medal on you, and say, "You're our boy."

[dalton99a]

8. Thanks to the South African Nazi parasite

[AncientOfDays]

9. What's worse ...

... is that muskrat is planning to rewrite the entire SS system using AI in like 2 months. 10's of millions of lines of code.

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671627405/

So good chance people won't be getting their checks for months or maybe years

[sinkingfeeling]

13. And AI converted code is undocumented and almost impossible to fix.

[AncientOfDays]

22. I've not seen AI generated code

But as a retired programmer, the only time you want to wholesale ditch working code is when it's beyond your ability to understand.

If the existing code is spaghetti (large code base), you don't replace wholesale, you peel off a function at a time, usually put it on a different server, and make sure it's all working properly before you take it live. At one point they did an estimate to fix SS code - it came to $10B -- far more than the problem was costing.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. I know. Saw a demonstration of AI converting COBOL into JAVA and the question was asked

how they could apply a patch to the new code. The answer was to fix it in the orginal and re-convert it! So, you'd still need someone who could at least read COBOL. Of course. I always thought COBOL was pretty self explanatory.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. AI is overrated in my opinion

Yet many tech bros have an almost religious belief in it being mankind's salvation.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. I rather suspect that those of us already collecting SS

will be unaffected. Those trying to newly sign up and collect, well good luck.

[BarbD]

14. Be careful of what you assume.

We have no way of knowing what havoc this will cause.

[Skittles]

16. UM

the disruption that would happen if they try to QUICKLY REVAMP the SS setup as they have indicated IS INSANE and would affect ALL SS FUNCTIONS

[Skittles]

15. this kind of SHIT is completely fucking UNACCEPTABLE

W T F

[scipan]

18. I'm not buying much lately.

Getting my savings up.

I can't be the only one.

[synni]

32. Those of us on SSI aren't allowed to save

We can't have more than $2,000, or we will lose our benefits.

[GoodRaisin]

19. And if you complain Howard Nutlicker will accuse you of fraud.

Which has to be the dumbest statement I ever heard come out of a human mouth. You can’t make this shit up.

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. If that happened, the price of Tesla stock would be the least of Nazi Boy's problems.

It would be the de facto beginning of musk-hunting season.

[elocs]

24. This, this is why I come to DU...to read the relentless drumbeat of bad news about SS

for which there is only one answer---get a job. Fortunately, I'm still in good enough shape to do that. However, I do regret not emigrating to Australia 50 years ago when I graduated from college. Oh well.

[sakabatou]

26. And what about those who can't, such as the elderly or disabled?

[elocs]

38. I am elderly in age (72), but our conditions from one person to the next are different.

But if you can find hope for Social Security here at DU, then you are doing much better than I am. I must do what I am able to do to survive.

[synni]

33. I'm disabled

I can't use my eyes or my body for more than 15 minutes at a time, without resting for hours. Who is going to hire me? You?

[elocs]

40. I'm sorry for your condition and wish you well. But do you find hope for the future of SS here?

DU is the postings and opinions of its members and what I'm saying is that these postings offer little hope to those of us who depend upon Social Security as our only
source of income. I find that depressing, but my only personal recourse is to look for a job. We all can only do what we can do.
I wish you well and you are a better person than I am if you can find hope here for the future of Social Security for all of us.

[North Shore Chicago]

36. Nice.....

Can you possibly offer a more republican-like response?! We have folks who have worked maybe 50 years or so PUTTING IN THEIR OWN MONEY paycheck after paycheck. And THIS is your unfocused response?

Many are tired.

[elocs]

37. It's my honest opinion. But then I won't be able to see any of your posts anymore. n/t

[sakabatou]

25. If the royally screw with people who depend on SSA/D

there will be blood.

[elocs]

41. But whose blood? n/t

[sakabatou]

42. Most likely, it'll be people that depend on it the most

Those who cannot survive without it.

[Johnny2X2X]

39. This is what it will be

A few thousand people at a time losing their benefits and then having to spend months to "requalify".

And this is a white supremacist doing to work of who loses theirs, race will certainly be a factor in who he picks to stop getting checks.