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  • Posted by $ 2 years, 1 month ago
    They must be very busy during this "Pandemic" but I'll bet they are still drawing their full salaries. I recall this office as always being full of people seeking assistance.
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    • Posted by Aeronca 2 years, 1 month ago
      Yes they get to sit at home, do next to nothing, get full salary. I called once, got transferred to somewhere, the employee was yelling at her kids, she could not add basic numbers to explain my issue. She stated and repeated like a robot a policy from the SSA Redbook, then transferred me to the electronic trashcan, a hang-up loop. A brand new trainee from the early days of the pandemic. They saved all that money closing the offices so they hired a pile of non-competents to justify their budget.
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  • Posted by $ 2 years, 1 month ago
    I drove 42 miles this morning to reach the Social Security Office in my county. When I arrived there were 3 cars in the parking lot and the door was locked at 11:00 a.m. I knocked on the door and a lady came forward and peeped through a crack in the door telling me they didn't take walk-in persons because of guess what? You got it! COVID! She even backed away from the door. I had what I consider an emergency matter and she could have cared less. I called my Congressman's office and a very sweet young lady listened carefully to my problem and sent me an email (NDA). I will deliver it to his office which is closer than the SS office I drove to even in another county. Their SS person at his office will handle my claim. Their office is open. They don't fear COVID. Democrats in action at SS.
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    • Posted by Aeronca 2 years, 1 month ago
      There are a few good people in every office, but most of the time you get junk for help. With every visit to the SSA, I wrote down the name of the counsellor on the timestamp ticket, which I save all of those too in my giant notebook to prove I was there and prove who I talked to. After a while I had a map of who was good and who wasn't. One of the smartest and most helpful government employees there was a BLIND man!!! He had special equipment, a braille keyboard and he was able to answer my questions or get help if needed.
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  • Posted by Aeronca 2 years, 1 month ago
    I see this about the SSA insanity. I wish I could get in to talk to a person in there. I have to do everything manually, myself, with a 3-ring binder, hole-punch, stapler. Taking notes, saving Return-Receipt cards from the mail. Actually this is the only way to deal with the SSA because they are morons and most of them don't know the rules. You have to go online and get the Redbook just to begin to be competent in dealing with that bureaucratic Butt-phuk.

    https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-64-030.pdf

    With the SSA, paper is King. If you ever have to deal with them over a serious money issue, you want to have saved, in order, every single piece of paper they have sent you. You want to have copies of everything you have sent them, with Return Receipts attached to your copies. It could cost you thousands of dollars if you aren't organized.

    I made a small mistake once, and then SSA made a BIG mistake. They charged me $21,363.79. After 18 months of ripping out hair and weeks on the phone and in person, I managed to find two kind women who took action to get it reduced to $3000.00. I still had to pay that. AND this was long before C19 started.

    When is the madness going to stop? When we phase out Social Security by attrition. "As of 1/1/2023, midnight, anyone born after this time is ineligible for SS benefits. Anyone alive before this time with the benefit gets to keep it, until, by attrition, they die." First kill Social Security. Then kill Medicare. Then kill Medicaid. All the same format. No one alive loses their benefit. But the next generation born will be born knowing there is no safety net. You know what? They will learn how to balance the game of life very well!
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