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Social Security Response Times Threatened
BusinessInsider.com reporters Ayelet Sheffey and Juliana Kaplan, in a post on their website, reported on concerns expressed by the American Federation of Government Employees about the impact of $183 million cut in funding for the Social Security Administration operations in the recently released Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. Citing the potential that the reduction could “devastate the agency’s ability to serve the American public,” AFGE sources suggest, for example, that wait times for the public would worsen from the current 43-minute average experienced by callers using the agency’s customer service and information number. Read the businessinsider.com post here.