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Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« on: February 18, 2025, 08:59:52 am »
 Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
by Lauren Irwin - 02/18/25 8:14 AM ET

The Social Security Administration’s acting leader stepped down from her role over requests from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access recipient data, according to several reports.

Acting Commissioner Michelle King departed from the agency over the weekend after more than 30 years of service. She allegedly refused to provide DOGE staffers with sensitive information, The Associated Press reported.

In a statement, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said President Trump nominated “the highly qualified and talented Frank Bisignano” to lead the agency.

“We expect him to be swiftly confirmed in the coming weeks,” Fields said. “In the meantime, the agency will be led by a carer Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner.”

He added that Trump is committed to appointing “the best and most qualified” people to work on behalf of the American people, “not to appease the bureaucracy that has failed them for far too long.”

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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2025, 09:14:35 am »
Give me a break. How many federal employees and government contractors already have had access to my SSN for the past few decades?
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2025, 09:16:51 am »
If they want the information, DOGE can get it from the Chinese Communist Party or buy it off the Dark Web.
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2025, 09:35:04 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on February 18, 2025, 09:16:51 am
If they want the information, DOGE can get it from the Chinese Communist Party or buy it off the Dark Web.
The 13-year-old up the street probably has it, too.
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2025, 02:59:07 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 18, 2025, 09:14:35 am
Give me a break. How many federal employees and government contractors already have had access to my SSN for the past few decades?
How many office staff in doctors offices have access to peoples SS#? I am always amazed when I see a new doctor/specialist and am filling out forms that they all want my SS#, they can want it all they want but I never give it to them.
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2025, 03:57:08 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on February 18, 2025, 02:59:07 pm
How many office staff in doctors offices have access to peoples SS#? I am always amazed when I see a new doctor/specialist and am filling out forms that they all want my SS#, they can want it all they want but I never give it to them.

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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2025, 07:24:26 am »
30 years of service, take your pension and run, hopefully there will not be a criminal indictment in your future.
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2025, 07:26:26 am »
Quote from: GtHawk on February 18, 2025, 02:59:07 pm
How many office staff in doctors offices have access to peoples SS#? I am always amazed when I see a new doctor/specialist and am filling out forms that they all want my SS#, they can want it all they want but I never give it to them.

Just provide the "last four digits".  :laugh:
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2025, 07:33:27 am »
yeah, and the irony is that FDR promised that people's SS#'s would never---NEVER!---be used for anything except Social Security benefits purposes when he was pushing it through Congress in 1935.

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/social-security-act 
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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2025, 08:52:01 am »
Oh the drama.


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Re: Social Security chief steps down over DOGE access to recipient data: Reports
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2025, 08:59:00 pm »
Now can we drop the 30% of Social Security recipients who are below retirement age?
 


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