Thread by @arapaho415

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv Something that needs to be amplified, by voices that are heard. h/t @clearing_fog
1/ Appointed by former guy, Social Security Adm. commissioner Andrew Saul will serve through end of Biden term unless fired for "neglect of duty or malfeasance in office."
thehill.com/opinion/white-…

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv @clearing_fog 2/ "The act is silent on the midterm removal of the deputy commissioner [David Black]; presumably they can be fired at-will by the president."
Both SSA commissioner and deputy are appointed for 6-year terms after Senate confirmation. (more...)

https://twitter.com/SSWorks/status/1375103932335235074

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv @clearing_fog 3/ "Andrew Saul and David Black, the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA)...are 👉currently serving terms that expire at the end of President Biden’s first term in office👈."
And Biden can only fire for neglect of duty or malfeasance.

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv @clearing_fog 4/ "This situation is the result of the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994." (more...)
ssa.gov/history/pdf/Do…

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv @clearing_fog 5/ Who knows how much further damage Saul and Black may inflict the next 4 years?
Mar 24, 2021 Dem members of House Ways & Means letter to Saul:
"We understand that these beneficiaries are waiting because the SSA has not sent the necessary payment files...
rawstory.com/social-securit…

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv @clearing_fog 6/ ...to the IRS. We are aware that the IRS asked SSA to start sending payment files 2 weeks before the American Rescue Plan became law on March 11, 2021. As of today, SSA still has not provided the IRS w/the payment files that are needed to issue EIPs...
waysandmeans.house.gov/sites/democrat…

@ZevShalev @gregolear @LincolnsBible @NarativTv @clearing_fog 7/ ...to these struggling Americans."
Let's put pressure on Biden to fire both SSA commissioner and deputy (whose terms expire in 2024). @CatsChocolates @demopj @Ginger624 @ninaandtito @ninaburleigh @AdamParkhomenko @RighteousBabe4 @TeresaCCarter2 @ThomasS4217 @YDanasmithdutra