Social Security Changes Under Trump Led to Backlogs, Wait Times, and More Issues |
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A new report details multiple issues within the Social Security Administration (SSA) over the past year, including long delays for service to millions of beneficiaries, due primarily to changes and “reforms” imposed by the Trump administration in 2025.
Social Security beneficiaries have faced backlogs and delays for years as the result of underfunding and other political obstacles. But the White House’s campaign to make the program more efficient by rooting out supposed “fraud” appears to have made matters worse.
According to The Washington Post, which spoke to dozens of employees within the agency and customers affected by the Trump administration’s actions, as many as 6 million pending cases are backlogged in processing centers, and 12 million transactions are backed up in field offices across the country. These backlogs are due to the agency’s diminished workforce — a result of the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)