{"id":973,"date":"2025-07-12T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/?p=973"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:44:15","slug":"what-is-happening-with-social-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/2025\/07\/12\/what-is-happening-with-social-security\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Happening with Social Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE has identified articles to assist members with Social Security changes and impacts. There are several articles recommended to read to assist with this. The first is a Government Executive article dated July 10, 2025, by Tammy Flanagan, Retirement Counseling and Training titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2025\/07\/whats-really-going-social-security-heres-what-latest-numbers-say\/406635\/?oref=ge-featured-river-secondary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What\u2019s really going on with Social Security?<\/strong><\/a> Here\u2019s what the latest numbers say<br>\nBenefits won\u2019t disappear in 2033, but the clock is ticking. Here\u2019s what federal retirees need to know.<\/p>\n<p>This next article by NEXTGov dated July 10, 2025, by Natalie Alms, Staff Reporter, Nextgov\/FCW titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/digital-government\/2025\/07\/social-security-signals-potential-benefit-disruptions-fall-those-still-getting-paper-checks\/406645\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Social Security signals potential benefit disruptions this fall for those still getting paper checks<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 addresses a Social Security Change if members are getting their Social Security monthly payments via paper check.<\/p>\n<p>An article from Government Executive dated July 9, 2025, by Erich Wagner Titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/workforce\/2025\/07\/ssa-touts-service-improvements-reassignments-tell-different-story\/406618\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SSA touts service improvements, but reassignments tell a different story<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 SSA touts a reduction in the average speed of answer on its 1-800 number over the same period last year, but in actuality, the agency is scrambling to assign more workers to its teleservice centers to handle the high call volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Highlights the Potential Social Security Changes and Impacts to Members <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2025\/07\/2025-07-12-Social-Security-Issues.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}