Summary
Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek threatened to shut down the agency after a court barred Elon Musk’s DOGE team from accessing sensitive databases.
Dudek said he would cut off IT access for all employees, raising fears of halted benefits for 70 million Americans.
The court later clarified that not all SSA employees were DOGE affiliates, leading Dudek to backtrack.
Critics, including advocacy groups, accuse Dudek of undermining the agency and pursuing Musk and Trump’s anti-fraud agenda, which falsely alleges widespread improper payments.
Wonderful.
I’m on SSDI, (Disability), its my only income.
I got the… relatively regular Continuing Disability Review packet they send me every 6 or 7 years… got that earlier this month… and I’m gathering documents and getting everything straight before I submit it.
If… they just ‘turn it off’… does that mean I can’t submit my shit digitally? Does that mean if I mail it in… they won’t process it?
… Would that all mean I fail the review for not submitting it on time?
I have already reached out to a non profit legal firm that hopefully can at least advise me, or if I do ‘fail the review’, help me through the appeals process… but the appeals process itself … may or may not even function/exist, at this rate.
Awesome.