Social Security website crashes as agency pushes users online
The Social Security Administration has stated that it is investigating the reason for the recent incidents, which prevented beneficiaries from reaching their online accounts, after its temporarily down.
Myssa portal, which allows social security recipients to manage their advantages online, felt “full interruption” on Monday morning.
“There have been some recent incidents that affect” My Social Security “and we are actively studying the main reason,” SSA spokesman Nicole Tiggeman said. He said that the site itself has been in operation during the incidents, but “some people may have had problems with their personal” social security “ account. “
The result is the latest in a number of rare systems that have occurred in recent weeks last weeks. The agency pushed users to online and personnel services, and a part of the phone as a result of increasing efficiency.
The shutdown on Monday morning also affected a number of other clouds and internal systems used by the agency.
Social security systems and databases are the main target of Elon Muski Government’s Efficiency Department, as it strives to find a waste and fraud in the Federal bureaucracy. The musk team sought to access social security numbers, names, as well as the birth and death dates of the Project Beneficiaries.
Since the agency has been embedified by Doge teams, SSA has taken a number of measures that are charged to minimize fraud and improve efficiency. During the weekend, the agency rolled a new feature that allows you to reload social security beneficiaries without the help of agency techniques.
Doge has deployedAt least 10 employeesto identify the waste to the Social Security Administration. But the agency’s data do not support common fraud requirements. From 2015 to 2022, Social Security assessed that according to the general report of last year’s inspector, it is almost $ 72 billion.
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