When House members were questioning Postmaster Louis DeJoy about the delays in the mail, one defense I heard was that the Social Security only mailed out checks to one percent of the recipients, so old people didn’t have to worry. What was not mentioned was that comes to roughly 850,000 recipients. Those women and men are also probably the poorest and most vulnerable, since they don’t have bank accounts or credit cards.
The Social Security administration also mails out statements, notices, and other information. Social Security field offices have also been closed, meaning that even more business is done by mail. In all the Social Security Administration sends out about 350 pieces of mail annually.
DeJoy said the mail slowdown had nothing to do with the election. In a way, that makes it worse. This wasn’t something done deliberately with a purpose. It was done through sheer incompetence.
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