WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and her Senate colleagues are launching a new investigation into the Social Security Administration's (SSA) ongoing customer service crisis reaching new extremes. The Senators are raising concerns that SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano's staffing cuts and staff reassignments have left the agency unable to fully serve the nearly 75 million Americans who rely on the program.
"(Staff) reassignments are band-aid solutions to patch over ongoing service problems that have plagued the agency under your leadership," wrote Baldwin and the Senators, highlighting ongoing staffing shortages and field office closures.
"Your forced staff rea...