The new nominee to head the Social Security Administration told lawmakers that the agency faces a 'crisis.'
The nominee to be the next Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Martin O'Malley, said on Thursday during his Senate confirmation hearing that the agency faces a 'crisis' as it looks to serve the nearly 70 million Americans who depend on it for benefits that in 2023 total $1.4 trillion.
Americans in need of disability benefits may be forced to 'wait 220 days for an initial disability determination and perhaps as long as two years for the success of mandatory appeals,' O'Malley told Senators.'This is not the greatness of America. This is not acceptable,' O'Malley said. 'If someone wants a face-to-face meeting with a Social Security employee in a field office to claim their benefits, they should be able to get one.
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