Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff

The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.

April 7, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EDTToday at 5:00 a.m. EDT

{Paywall. Sometimes MSN picks up the story.}

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/07/social-security-website-crashes-musk-trump/

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LBN, or just a day that ends in a “y”? This has been going for days, even weeks.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Here's an archived link:

https://archive.ph/FQfBu

Good morning

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Thanks, and good morning.

I don’t know about you, but Trump’s winning his golf club’s championship yesterday has me in an upbeat mood.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

3. Let me guess....he was the lone entrant.

[wolfie001]

7. lol

[Tadpole Raisin]

4. Will a judge please hall them in and threaten jail if they don't

Get the old workers back in to keep the website going and keep their billionaire fingers off
S.S.

Is this so hard?

[Lonestarblue]

5. Well, it saves more money for the billionaires to steal if fewer people are able to sign up for SS.

[Bayard]

6. Where are the restraining orders on this?

The lawsuits?

To put it mildly, it scares the shit out of me!

[Abundance77]

8. Down website

Some of the problem is the fact that the SSA website is not use to so much traffic. Many seniors fear the lost of their benefits and therefore having been visiting the website to check the status of their benefits more fequently than in the past.. Obviously more is involved.