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Social Security & Disability Law Newsletter 
May 15, 2018 | Issue 65 | Closing SS Offices 

" The Social Security Administration plans to close its Arlington field office,… part of a series of shutdowns across the country that activists and political leaders say is causing major difficulties for the elderly, people with disabilities and other beneficiaries.

The agency has closed about 125 of its approximately 1,250 offices since 2000 — a 10 percent reduction, part of what officials describe as a shift to greater use of online services in an era of budget constraints and a growing population of senior citizens. 

“Closing the Arlington office is a shortsighted way to cut costs, and will inflict hardship on people least able to cope with it,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said. 

“ Those with the most complicated cases and greatest need often benefit from in-person services ,” said the letter, signed by Del. " ...Read more

Source: The Washington Post Story by Patricia Sullivan

"In 1952 an amendment was made to the Social Security Act of 1935 that required opted-out states [including Illinois] to provide workers with "generous" pension plans. But the operative word in the government's revision of the Social Security Act is “generous.” These days teachers' pension plans are anything but. That's because the aforementioned 15 states either greatly underfunded these pensions in the 50-plus years since the amendment came to pass, or – arguably worse – they've borrowed against them.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers retiring penniless will expand the wage disparity between the "common folks" and "the 1%," hastening a concentrated-wage economic collapse – i.e., too much money in the hands of the powerful, too little in the hands of everyone else." ... Read more

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