Ernst Calls Bureaucrats to Work as Social Security Admin Ignores Iowans

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“Multiple reports have surfaced of Organizational Payees in Iowa experiencing egregious delays with their SSA field office. Alarmingly, the SSA field office in Sioux City, Iowa has established a pattern of ignoring outreach from Organizational Payees entirely.

As expressed in the previous letter, it is well past time for the federal workforce to return to work at their duty stations. With hybrid and remote working now standard practice for the federal workforce, it is crucial to ensure not one of the more than 677,000 Iowans relying on the SSA for benefits and services annually are being negatively impacted by the arrangement.

When federal employees largely abandoned their offices to work remotely four years ago at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, these essential workers kept showing up to serve the vulnerable, disabled, and elderly. Now, these folks could lose access to those service providers who they rely upon if SSA’s unresponsiveness and delays put them out of business. This situation demands immediate attention, and we cannot tolerate its continuation."

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