WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
Lawmakers raise alarm about whether Trump administration is seeking to "quietly kill field offices," implement backdoor benefits cuts
"Once again, you seem to have adopted a slash-first, think-later approach to 'modernizing' SSA, and beneficiaries will pay the price," wrote the senators
Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, pressed Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano about reports that SSA has a new plan to slash nearly 15 million field office visits annually. The agency has not provided details as to how it plans to achieve this goal.
Gillibrand requested crit...