WASHINGTON—Five Senate Democrats have written to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), seeking an investigation into changes ordered by the Trump administration.
The actions include reducing the size of the 57,000-person workforce by 7,000 employees, closing six regional offices, and reducing the costs of information technology (IT) and contractor services.
An SSA blog statement says the changes are in line with “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy,” an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Feb. 19.
The Democrat senators, in a letter to the SSA OIG, alleged that the actions “will drastically disrupt—if not reduce—Americans’ earned benefits,” and called for an investigation to determine whether they have “affected the agency’s ability to provide quality customer service.”…