Social Security Says On X It’s Not Switching All Communications To X (Update) | EUROtoday

The Social Security Administration hasn’t posted a press launch on its web site since March 27 after having put out releases almost each day for the earlier month.

According to a report in Wired, the company is shifting communications to X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the individual President Donald Trump put accountable for looking for “efficiency” at federal companies.

“We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes,” an SSA regional commissioner introduced throughout an inner assembly this week, in keeping with Wired’s sources.

Social Security spokespeople didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from HuffPost. Hours later, the company responded to the Wired report with a submit on X: “This is false. Social Security will continue to communicate through any and all mediums.”

As of Friday evening, it nonetheless had not posted something new on its press launch web site.

In current weeks, queries to the SSA press line have produced responses from White House spokespeople as an alternative of Social Security spokespeople.

For instance, this week the White House confirmed to HuffPost and different retailers Social Security would now not implement a large change to cellphone service that had been scheduled to take impact subsequent week. The change, pushed by Musk’s crew, had been supposed to dam fraudulent exercise carried out over the cellphone. It would have required hundreds of thousands of seniors to indicate themselves at Social Security discipline places of work, as an alternative of simply calling in, in the event that they have been unable to use for advantages by means of SSA.gov.

The company didn’t announce that change on X. Instead, it posted a cryptic message which may have made individuals suppose the unique cellphone service cutback was nonetheless occurring.

“Beginning on April 14, #SocialSecurity will perform an anti-fraud check on all claims filed over the telephone and flag claims that have fraud risk indicators,” the message stated. In one other submit the subsequent day, Social Security stated cellphone customers “will only have to come in-person if they are flagged by our anti-fraud system.”

Here’s how a White House official defined what was happening in an e mail to HuffPost: “Beginning on April 14, SSA will allow all claim types to be completed over the telephone.” In different phrases, no precise change would take impact.

The cellphone service change had initially been introduced in a press launch on SSA.gov. When it postponed the rollout for 2 weeks, to the 14th, as a result of it was a major alteration to company operations and no person was prepared, the company introduced the delay in one other press launch. There’s no press launch telling individuals they gained’t must drive to their nearest discipline workplace if they will’t use the Social Security web site.

More than 70 million retired and disabled Americans obtain month-to-month Social Security advantages, with a number of million extra enrolling yearly.