Washington, June 3 -- Rep. John B. Larson issued the following press release:
Today, House Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member John B. Larson (CT-01) and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05) led 74 House Democrats demanding answers (https://larson.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/larson-evo.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/letter_to_ssa-call_wait_times-compressed.pdf)from the Social Security Administration (SSA) on the impact of the Trump Administration's staffing cuts.
Earlier this year, in an attempt to cover up high phone wait time, SSA reassigned employees from its Disability Adjudication, Financial and Management, Field Office Services, Risk and Quality, Digital Services, and Chief Information Officer units to assist in monitoring it...