SSA did not respond to the Wired request about what DOGE employees work inside the agency.
At Tuesday’s meeting, US DOGE service manager Ami Glyceon told employees that musk -affiliated engineers and some USD workers are led to SSA to improve “proof of identity”. US DOGE service is a permanent return from US digital service. Proof of identity is the process that SSA uses to identify users who say they are to access their benefits. The process includes registering in identity programs such as the government.gov itself or third -party services such as ID.me.
At a meeting last week, according to the Washington Post, the SSA acting Commissioner, the “DOGE people” were effectively responsible for daily operations in the agency and “were wrong”. He also stated that he was in direct contact with the White House.
“I work for the President, according to a longer session of the meeting obtained by propublica.” I have to do what the President tells me. I had to make tough choices, the choices I didn’t agree with, but the President wanted it, and I did. “
In February, Davodak was planning to shoot 7,000 employees in SSA and close more than half of the agency’s regional offices, confirming that many of the senior SSA employees were departing. This week, the Agency refused to completely drop the phone service for customers after the Washington Post report on the project.
The SSA has a very complex system built on decades of technology and contains some of the most sensitive personal information held anywhere in the US government. Experts say the threat that DOGE engineers make up in these systems is great.
Former SSA Commissioner Martin Ovar warned last week, following a button attack, the SSA system can “collapse” and recipients know “interruption in benefits.” The alert was repeated by Flick, which in his Affidavit wrote that the lack of awareness of DOGE agencies, losing seriously using SSA sextse, “most of all more than SSA sextse,” disappears, “loss more than equivalents,” losing more using SSA “,” more than SSA “,” Leaves. “Programs continue to work and work without disturbing.”
“This is a valid fear that damages the identified personal information or the source code without controlling the necessary control,” says John McGing, a former SSA employee who worked in the agency for almost four decades.
In addition, DOGE imposes a $ 1 cost limit for federal credit cards, which has led to some SSA district offices that have experienced the problems of buying main accessories including paper and toner based on details shared by Wired by an SSA employee.
“We have started rationing article,” the source says. “People like to ask four copies of their profit confirmation letter. We gave them one and told them to make their own copies.”
The sign language translators for the appointments in SSA have also been cut due to a $ 1 cost limit. “We have to go back to that customer and tell them that we cannot provide an interpreter, even if everything on our website says we will provide it,” the source said.
SSA employees are now unable to order death certificates, which are used to confirm whether someone is dead in the system.
The office is also capable of paying a company that crushes the Document Mountains that prints daily, and fears that identify a large number of paper with very sensitive personal information can stay around the office soon.
Timothy Marceman did reporting.
