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Social Security payments could suffer interruption soon as DOGE causes ‘system collapse' (fortune.com)

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Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, who headed the agency during the Biden administration, urged people to start saving money now because benefits could be interrupted in the next one to three months. He told CNBC that changes DOGE is making to the agency have already caused IT system outages, which he predicted will become more frequent until there is a “system collapse.”

The federal government has never failed to deliver Social Security payments on time, but a former commissioner warned that could happen soon as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency makes changes and cuts staff.

Martin O’Malley, who led the agency during the Biden administration, told CNBC on Saturday that cuts have already led to IT outages, which he predicted will become more frequent and last longer each time until there’s a total failure.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I used to work for a health insurance company in the appeals dept. I would find obvious payment errors and route the appeal off to another dept. for correction; and it would just sit there. Eventually, my boss started putting pressure on me to close out the appeal even though the error hadn't been fixed because the open appeals were making our numbers look bad. I didn't do this, so one day I was just reassigned. The appeals processing assignment was handed off to one of my coworkers who had no problem just closing them out whether they had been resolved or not.