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https://www.yahoo.com/news/aarp-furious-trump-administration-curtailing-170708043.html

"The leading advocacy group for older Americans is not happy at all about the Donald Trump administration’s plans to require office visits for certain Social Security requests that have long been handled by phone.

The Social Security Administration announced Tuesday that, beginning at the end of the month, anyone unable to prove their identity via SSA.gov will have to do it in person at one of the agency’s 1,200 field offices instead of just picking up the phone.

“Asking tens of millions of Americans to jump through new hoops and prove their identity in the next 13 days to access the customer service they have paid for is deeply unacceptable,” AARP Vice President Nancy LeaMond warned in a letter to Leland Dudek, Social Security’s acting commissioner.
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AARP is an influential lobbying and membership organization representing one of the most powerful voting groups in the U.S. It said its members had delivered more than 800,000 messages to members of Congress in the past two weeks urging lawmakers to protect Social Security from the Trump administration’s changes.

“With Americans already waiting hours to get connected with Social Security on the phone, it is outrageous that under this new policy, older Americans, especially those in rural areas, will have to call, wait on hold for possibly hours, make an appointment, or even take a day off work to claim the benefits they have worked for and earned,” LeaMond wrote. “There is nothing ‘efficient’ about creating more confusion and disrupting the lives of millions of hardworking American taxpayers with such short notice and with no input from the public.”....(more)