Not only that, but the whole 'dead man' article tries to blame DOGE for something that was clearly just standard US government incompetence. How do we know? Well, the guy did not receive his check in February and the article tries to skew the story about the timeline. DOGE didn't even start in on the SS administration at the time this incident occurred - but, leave it to the Dems to target their gullible base. If it were not for stupid people, the Democrats would be left with only pedophiles, criminals, and the deceased as their voter base.
#2 | Posted by ScottS
Not surprisingly, you are totally missing and dismissing the point: It took this guy 3 weeks of repeated phone calls to SS, a trip to his local SS office, which is scheduled to be closed, and then a 4 hour wait at that office to get before he could talk to anyone who could help him with his problem. As DOGE continues to cut SS employees, close local SS offices and is now planning to end toll free phone service at SS, what DOGE is doing is going to greatly affect senior citizens and their ability to interact with the agency.
What followed was a nearly three-week battle to resurrect himself. He called Social Security two or three times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected. Finally someone answered and gave him an appointment for March 13. Then he got a call delaying that to March 24.
In a huff, he went to the office on the ninth floor of the Henry Jackson Federal Building downtown. It's one of the buildings proposed to be closed under what the AP called "a frenetic and error-riddled push by Elon Musk's budget-cutting advisers."
It was like a Depression-era scene, he said, with a queue 50-deep jockeying for the attentions of two tellers. The employees were kind but beleaguered.
"They are so understaffed down there," he said. "They think the office is about to be closed down, and they don't know where they're going to go. It feels like the agency's being gutted."
After waiting for four hours, Johnson admits he jumped the line: "I saw an opening and I kind of rushed up and told them I was listed as dead. That seemed to get their attention."
Once in front of a human, Johnson said he was able to quickly prove he was alive, using his passport and his gift of gab. They pledged to fix his predicament, and on Thursday this past week, the bank called to say it had returned the deducted deposits to his account. As of Friday morning he hadn't received February or March's benefits payments.
