Correcting the Record about Social Security Office Closings
Reading Time: 1 MinuteLast Updated: April 18, 2025
Recent reports in the media that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is permanently closing local field offices are false. Since January 1, 2025, the agency has not permanently closed or announced the permanent closure of any local field office. From time to time, SSA must temporarily close a local field office for reasons such as weather, damage, or facilities issues, and it reopens when the issues are resolved. The agency has announced the permanent closure of one hearing office, in White Plains, NY.
SSA works closely with local congressional delegations before closing any office permanently. The agency also reassigns employees from an affected office to other locations to help communities access in-person services.
“SSA is committed to providing service where people need help and our local field offices are no exception,” said Lee Dudek, Acting Commissioner of Social Security. “We have not permanently closed any local field offices this year.”
SSA identified for the General Services Administration underutilized office space to ensure the government is spending taxpayer money as prudently as possible. The agency provided GSA a list of sites for termination. Most of these are small hearing rooms with no assigned employees. Since most hearings are held virtually, SSA no longer needs these underutilized rooms.
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D. B.
Looking for information on why you are moving the office in Racine from a building owned by the public in the city on the bus route to a location that will be rented to the outskirts of the city that is not on a bus route. Would be nice if we can find the specific information that lead to specific office of the effected people.
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YOu closed our Local centrally located Social Security office in Albuquerque, NM 2 weeks ago ask Senator Melanie Stansbury who was the only one who tried to stop it with no notice hardly now only office is in downtown with only paid parking no handicap parking and only two people at a time are allowed to enter bldg rest in line outside for over rural outside of ABQ and over 1,500,000+people
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I think it is quite dishonest that you are reporting on this topic without including that the closures that were being reported were expected closures. So, no, they weren’t lying about social security offices closing, it was a prediction based off of a list of leases that doge plans to not renew and from publicly available information about the offices and their addresses.
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