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Tom Temin Commentary

The telework question has settled into stasis

Here is why agencies can't settle on a post-pandemic telework policy, and likely won't.

Management

From a former commissioner, advice for the next team at Social Security

Unions

First pulse survey results are out and SSA didn't do too well

Workforce

SSA reaches deal to resume some in-person disability claims hearings starting in May

Federal Newscast

House Democrats lay out plans for Social Security after COVID

People

Biden fires Saul as SSA commissioner

Workforce

As more agencies reevaluate telework, OMB sets mid-July deadline to finalize office reentry plans

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Unions

Labor relations at the Social Security Administration are going from bad to worse

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, the Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md. Medicare’s financial problems have gotten worse, and Social Security’s can’t be ignored forever. The government’s annual assessment is a sobering checkup on programs vital to the middle class. The report from program trustees says Medicare will become insolvent in 2026, three years earlier than previously forecast. The report says Social Security will become insolvent in 2034, no change from the projection last year.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Management

SSA says it'll start to incrementally bring more employees back to field offices

FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021 that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Management

SSA ‘aggressively worked’ to give IRS data to process 30M stimulus payments

President of the Association of Administrative Law Judges

Unions

AALJ not confident in SSA leadership

Gina Haspel

Federal Newscast

CIA unveils new website to step up recruitment efforts

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Pay & Benefits

Your checks during coronavirus: A guide for federal employees and retirees

Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

Workforce

Majority of SSA employees have or will soon begin full-time telework

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Workforce

New SSA telework policies prompt criticism from employees, lawmakers

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Tom Temin Commentary

Social Security to fire Chekhov's pistol

Social Security, SSA, worker, telework, episodic telework

Workforce

SSA announces more agencywide telework changes

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Federal Report

Teleworking: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

Andrew Saul listens during his confirmation hearing to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal Report

Ticking telework timebomb

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Unions

Telework will remain for NTEU's SSA workforce, impasse panel rules

Census

Federal Newscast

Commerce IG auditing Census Bureau’s cybersecurity ahead of 2020 count

In this Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, photograph, an airman with the Royal Saudi Air Force walks away from a C-130 Hercules military cargo plane near Mukalla, Yemen, at an airport now serving as a military base for the United Arab Emirates. The port city of Mukalla, once held by al-Qaida, shows how fractious Yemen is and will remain even if the Saudi-led war in the country ends in an uneasy peace for the Arab world's poorest nation. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Federal Newscast

Air Force grounds over 100 C-130s due to cracks in wing joints

Social Security Administration

Hiring/Retention

SSA announces hiring freeze at headquarters, regional components