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{"FB895382-5056-A066-608D-855C897EC944":{"TotalRows":1,"uid":"FB895382-5056-A066-608D-855C897EC944","title":"Sen. Schumer visits Cicero Senior Center to bring attention to Social Security backlog ","summary":"Syracuse, NY ","eventType":"chuck-around-ny","eventTypeLabel":"Chuck Around NY","date":"July 2, 2018","url":"about/chuck-around-new-york/sen-schumer-visits-cicero-senior-center-to-bring-attention-to-social-security-backlog-","city":"Cicero","county":"Onondaga","lat":43.1458006,"lng":-76.11210749999998,"description":"<p>U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer today revealed that without immediate intervention Social Security field offices in Upstate New York, including the Syracuse field office, could be plagued with even longer wait times if the federal government doesn’t act quickly. According to Schumer, with the retirement of the baby boomers -10,000 reaching the retirement age every day - the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) workload has increased tremendously and therefore wait times have reached unprecedented levels. The Syracuse field office has the state’s largest pending case backlog with over 9,000 outstanding retirements, supplementary security income, and disability claims and the average wait time for a hearing to be processed is over 620 days. The Syracuse SSA field office also received over 22,000 calls last year, the second most in the state, but only answered 66 percent of calls according to recent data. For this reason, Schumer called on the federal government to immediately deliver new funding – which Schumer negotiated and President Trump signed into law - to underfunded and understaffed Social Security Administration hearing and field offices. </p>"}}

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