Social Security Administration

O’Malley outlines plans to rebuild Social Security Administration workforce

After a hiring freeze, Commissioner Martin O’Malley is readying plans to rebuild the Social Security Administration workforce as quickly as possible.

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Amelia Brust, Federal News NetworkSocial Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

SSA adds ‘episodic’ telework flexibility for agency employees

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Amelia Brust/Federal News NetworkMartin O'Malley

Social Security HQ employees ordered to increase in-person work starting April 7

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social seciurity, fraud, AI

An ‘agency in crisis’: Union makes pitch for $20B supplemental funding for SSA

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Social Security

As SSA IT modernization hits its stride, leadership launches a reorg of the CIO’s office

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Amelia Brust, Federal News NetworkTelework

‘Telework is not one-size-fits-all’: Agencies defend hybrid work for feds in front of House lawmakers

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Amelia Brust, Federal News NetworkSocial Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

SSA says understaffing led to overpaying 2M beneficiaries since FY 2022

The Social Security Administration overpaid about 2 million beneficiaries over the past two years, and is telling lawmakers that more staffing is needed…

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FITARA

Why some CIOs say it’s time to rethink governmentwide cyber metrics

Andre Mendes, the chief information officer at the Department of Commerce, was one of several agency technology executives pushing for more consistency…

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Social Security Gender

Count the IG among the challenges facing Social Security

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is on the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk List. It is there primarily because of its long-term fiscal uncertainty and questions about whether, in the long run, it can pay the benefits it owes retired Americans. But SSA also has an other internal management problem, stemming from its Office of Inspector General.

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