Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano told Congress on Wednesday that the agency has improved one legacy pain point for individuals who contact it — long phone wait times for the toll-free helpline. SSA has brought the average "speed of answer," or the time it takes for an agent to answer an incoming call, to the "lowest level in a decade," Bisignano said in written testimony to the House Ways and Means Social Security and Work & Welfare subcommittee hearing. In May,...
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett erupted at Republicans, calling them a "majority… White" party and accusing them of using a member of Martin Luther King Jr.’s family as a prop to shield themselves from allegations of racism while interrogating the Southern Poverty Law Center's funding of hate groups. Crockett, who is leaving office next year after a failed Senate bid, lambasted Republicans for expressing outrage at the SPLC while not addressing the "literal elephant in the room" — a reference to...
