Don Moynihan: This is a cool example of what the Biden administration is good at: small, wonky changes that meaningfully make public services easier to access. Am excited about Martin O' Malley as SSA head: a rare politician who cares about implementation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is a cool example of what the Biden administration is good at: small, wonky changes that meaningfully make public services easier to access. Am excited about Martin O' Malley as SSA head: a rare politician who cares about implementation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Social Security to drop obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefitswww.washingtonpost.com For decades, Social Security has used obsolete jobs like pneumatic tube operator and nut sorter to deny disabled claimants.

i’m sorry but this is what i think of every single time

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The only thing I remember about O’Malley was a debate where I spent the entire time wondering where his eyebrows were.

Lol holy shit rip!

I just really want to have this guy's account come up in a legal proceeding so I can hear someone with a lot of gravitas say "the user 'weedguy420boner'" for some reason.

The rub is that small wonky changes, for the general public, they're too small to easily comprehend and not sexy enough for media outlets to breathlessly rave about or go over. The other side, of course, is that they're also not large and sweeping enough and thus a failure because it's never enough

Stuff like this makes people feel crazy, depressed, and hate government.

Pneumatic tube operator “barely” exists? I feel like this story needs a side box on America’s last resilient pneumatic tube operators

Probably this law has been updated, putting a large number of pneumatic tube operators out of work.

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The current Commissioner of Social Security is great and is focused on doing his very best to implement as many positive regulatory changes as he can between now and January. Would be great if he could have years more to do work after that.

See also: www.ssa.gov/regulations/...

Recent Regulatory Actionswww.ssa.gov

Some supplemental thoughts from a disability lawyer bsky.app/profile/dbee...

So this is good news, but not great. SSA has issued two new Emergency Messages. One flatly excludes about a hundred jobs from consideration. The other includes a list of a dozen jobs but also includes a loophole you could drive a semi through (And vocational experts basically already do). Cont.>

For clarity, disability non-attorney representative. The various federal agencies can create their own practice standards.

I couldn’t figure out reading this why in the heck administrative judges are using the categories—it’s a list, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be used by officials, no?

Uh

when i applied for disability they forced me to explain why i couldn’t be a professional egg counter.

The contrast between the Biden administration and the chaos of the previous Scamalot Trumpistan administration is also quite notable.

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