The Social Security Administration has reduced wait times for those contacting the agency. However, with its employees already overworked, upcoming changes could increase wait times again.

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The Social Security Administration is shifting more employees to its phone line, a move that employees say risks adding to backlogs and processing times for the public as employees who typically ...

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