The mission of the Social Security Administration (SSA) is to deliver Social Security services that meet the changing needs of the public. Barnhart has been claiming for the last three or four months that there would be no major backlogs at Social Security if Congress had just voted for the budgets that President Bush put forward. In her role, she oversaw one of the largest agencies in the federal government, with more than 60,000 federal employees nationwide working with another 16,000 state employees who make medical determinations in the SSA’s disability program.
The Problem Solver called Social Security Administration spokeswoman Carmen Moreno, who had a team look into Lubelchek’s case. Social Security always has a problem in paying newly approved claimants in January because of the other workload pressure which go up dramatically at the beginning of each year.
By the time it realized the error years later, Social Security …