{"id":228176,"date":"2025-12-11T22:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228176\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:43:07","slug":"senators-war-with-social-security-continues-this-time-its-about-slashing-visits-to-field-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/228176\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators\u2019 war with Social Security continues \u2014 this time it\u2019s about slashing visits to field offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Dec. 11, 2025 at 3:55\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The war between a handful of senators and the Social Security Administration continues \u2014 this time, with the number of projected field-office visits next year in the crosshairs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The Social Security Administration reportedly wants to cut the number of visits to field offices in half in fiscal year 2026, with no more than 15 million in total, and move more individuals to self-service online options, according to a <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/digital-government\/2025\/12\/social-security-wants-about-15-million-fewer-visits-its-field-offices\/409850\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nextgov\/FCW<\/a> report that cited the agency\u2019s internal planning documents. Senators are now pushing back on the Social Security Administration for clarity on its plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Dec. 11, 2025 at 3:55\u202fp.m. ET The war between a handful of senators and the Social Security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[8139,85029,79,7944,6567,82639,18,3334,20602,135,19,3912,40506,3442,41557,17,6045,87185,3521,6403,82656,234,235,87188,9436,44285,790,82638,11994,44282,2895,19363,5577,2990,82655,26243,6408,87186],"class_list":{"0":"post-228176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-banking-credit","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-credit","13":"tag-domestic-politics","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-government-policy","17":"tag-health","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-insurance","20":"tag-international-relations","21":"tag-investing","22":"tag-investing-securities","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-labor","25":"tag-labor-personnel-issues","26":"tag-lifestyle","27":"tag-living","28":"tag-living-lifestyle","29":"tag-personal-finance","30":"tag-personalfinance","31":"tag-personnel-issues","32":"tag-political","33":"tag-political-general-news","34":"tag-politics","35":"tag-politics-international-relations","36":"tag-regulation","37":"tag-regulation-government-policy","38":"tag-retirement-planning","39":"tag-securities","40":"tag-social-services","41":"tag-society","42":"tag-society-community","43":"tag-synd","44":"tag-welfare","45":"tag-welfare-social-services"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}