Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images AI in the Workplace Thirty thousand people died while waiting for Social Security disability determinations during fiscal 2023, the Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley told Nextgov/FCW in a recent interview.
It’s a grim statistic for an agency undergoing what O’Malley describes as a “customer service crisis” induced by a lack of adequate funding and associated staffing woes.
“A disability claimant is waiting for basic income and health insurance,” said David Camp, CEO of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, an association for those representing disability claimants.“To wait an extra month could […]
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