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   Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:14 JST Paul Chambers🚧

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   15/ FALSE ALERT: FYI, if you come across this story, "Social Security will suspend payments for 90 days," Microsoft , Edge and MSN is feeding it out in Edge Web browsers. It won't take time for people to see it, spread it and start panicking. The headline is false.

   MSN is feeding some third-party website site, in what appears to be AI garbage in the Edge start page "news" sections.

   The article rehashes others who say the actual damage being done could slow or cause the payment system to collapse but then frames it as "The combination of reduced staffing and increased demands could result in a 90-day suspension of Social Security payments."

   Even that is conjecture.

   This is false. SSA isn't pausing payments.

   #SocialSecurity

   The article is: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/social-security-will-suspend-payments-for-90-days/ar-AA1AkFhE

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     Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 00:05:15 JST Paul Chambers🚧

     14 / Social Security offices in 'chaos' as DOGE cripples services

     "And this week, the long-struggling disability benefits system came under threat as backlogged state offices that review claims were told there would be no more overtime or hiring."

     The report adds that some offices are unable to pay phone bills due to a DOGE freeze on credit cards, and that other offices are having to absorb the call volume causing massive delays in processing retirement claims as calls go unanswered." #SocialSecurity #doge

     As reported elsewhere in this thread, doge has already started closing local offices

     https://www.rawstory.com/doge-social-security-2671281956/