Trump Terminates Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) Cooperative Agreements

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1: Social Security cuts cooperative agreements

The United States Social Security Administration announces the termination of the cooperative agreements of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) to comply with the executive order of President Trump.

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The Social Security Administration today (02/21/2025) announced the termination of its cooperative agreements of the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC). This action supports President Trump’s executive order, End the Dei programs of the Radical Government and wasteful.

«Finish our RDRC cooperation agreements aligns with the priorities of President Trump to end fraudulent initiatives and contracts,» said the interim social security commissioner Lee Dudek. «We will continue highlighting the waste and abuse to recover the confidence and confidence of the United States in our agency.»

Social Security previously held RDRC cooperation agreements with research centers that included a research approach addressed by the DEI in Social Security, retirement and disability policy. Finishing these cooperative agreements results in approximately $ 15 million in cost savings for workers working in fiscal year 2025.

For more information about the executive order of President Trump, see End the Dei programs of the Radical Government and wasteful – The White House.

For more information about the interim commitment of Commissioner Doubek with the transparency of the agency and the protection of benefits and information, consult your statement in:
ssa.gov/news/press/releases/2025/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery#2025-02-19

2: Social Security announces the change to improve agency’s operations and strengthen protections

The Social Security Administration is announcing an organizational realignment of the functions provided by its Office of Analysis, Review and Supervision (OARO). These functions are still critical to ensure that Social Security administrators are high quality and effective, which SSA uses the latest tools to recommend opportunities to improve programs and detect and prevent fraud.

«President Trump has made it clear that good governance must make it better to identify and eliminate fraud, waste and abuse,» said Lee Dudek, an interim social security commissioner. «Realing functions previously under the Office of Analysis, Review and Supervision is an important and common sense in the right direction to further strengthen the integrity of social security and supplementary security income programs that millions of people depend.»

Moving the functions of Oaro to the existing parts of the agency will rationalize the management layers, increase the exchange of data with essential social security components and accelerate the opportunities to identify fraud, waste and abuse and implement the necessary solutions.

The interim commissioner Dudek understands that only the government does not have all the answers. An important part of the identification of fraud, waste and abuse is the timely and significant commitment to a variety of interested parties, including many in the defense community. The commitment to the defenders will resume seriously. With the realignment of the functions of Oaro, Gina Clemons, previously attached commissioner of Oaro, will take the SSA’s initiative to participate directly with the key interests key on the topics that include, protect the integrity of our programs and identify efficiency opportunities as the simplification of the program and the simplification of the program. technology. These improvements will be based on the recommendations that Doge team members provide the agency and help improve the way Social Security serves the United States.

3: Social Security Administration closes the Transformation Office

Social Security eliminates the department of wasteful: the action is another step to improve operations …

The Social Security Administration today, (February 25, 2025), announced the closure of a component within the agency, the Transformation Office. Employees in this office will receive an effective administrative license today.

«President Trump has ordered the Federal Government to eliminate waste and inefficient offices and the transformation office was an excellent example,» said Lee Dudek, an interim social security commissioner. «This redundant office was created under the previous administration and we are wrong so bad.»

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The Social Security Administration also announced the closure of a component within the agency, the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunities. Employees in this office will receive an effective administrative license today. SSA will transfer the responsibility of processing complaints of equal employment opportunities, reasonable accommodation requests and other legally required functions to other SSA components to guarantee compliance with existing legal authorities.

Editor’s note:

Of the functions of the «SSA Organizational Manual: Chapter TS – The Office of Transformion»

«The client experience office (OCX) (TSB) defends the needs and expectations of the agency’s clients and the employees who attend them. Performs a comprehensive customer investigation and supervises the client’s program’s voice (voc), ensuring that customers are heard and listened to.

Editorial Note: While the Administration promotes fiscal responsibility and public trust as justification to end Dei’s investigation, critics warn that reducing studies on social security equity could leave vulnerable populations, such as older people, disabled individuals and communities marginalized, without data -based protections. The decision underlines a growing political division on whether the DEI programs represent the necessary safeguards or the bureaucratic excess, and the defenders argue that these cuts prioritize short -term savings over long -term political equity. Transparency claims will face scrutiny as interested parties evaluate how research reduction affects responsibility in disability and retirement systems – Disabled world (DW).

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