The National Committee to Preserve Social Security has joined a federal lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA), Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason, and Elon Musk in his de facto role as head of DOGE. The lawsuit alleges that mass staffing reductions, policies requiring individuals to seek services in person at field offices, and the elimination of critical offices within the SSA unlawfully harm older adults and people with disabilities who rely on Social Security.
“As one of the nation’s leading Social Security advocacy organizations, we cannot stand by while the Trump administration runs roughshod over the agency that administers Americans’ earned benefits. Under the influence of Trump, Musk and DOGE, the leadership of the Social Security Administration has been recklessly slashing services, field offices, and staff,” says NCPSSM President and CEO, Max Richtman.
“These harmful policies have already hindered our members and supporters (mostly seniors, people with disabilities, and their families) from collecting the benefits they have paid for. The Trump administration has been largely unresponsive to the public outcry over the systematic dismantling of the Social Security Administration. The majority party in Congress has abdicated its duty to oversee the executive branch. It’s time to turn to the courts to right this wrong,” Richtman explains.
Filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by Justice in Aging, the National Federation for the Blind, the American Association of People with Disabilities, and several other co-plaintiffs including NCPSSM, the complaint seeks emergency relief to halt the dismantling of the SSA’s infrastructure, including the abrupt closures of the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity (OCREO) and the Office of Transformation (OT), and the termination of 7,000 SSA employees.
“We are proud to join this legal action to compel the Trump administration to stop interfering with Americans’ ability to claim the benefits they paid for — and which they rely upon every day for financial stability and personal well-being,” says Richtman.
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