A senior leader at the Social Security Administration who was investigated over reports that she was impaired on the job has been reassigned to a new position without direct oversight over employees.
Following the report, a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees, with oversight of Social Security, pressed agency leaders for action, according to congressional aides. Kijakazi also has faced heightened scrutiny as her agency has struggled to provide timely service after restarting its field operations this spring after a more than two-year closure during the pandemic.
Its judges are tasked with issuing decisions on appeals involving retirement and survivor and disability benefits for poor and elderly Americans.internal report by the office of Inspector General Gail Ennis that was not publicly released. It wasstaff. Witnesses told investigators that Gruber’s comportment led them to wonder whether she had been drinking.
Social Security officials defended Gruber’s work over a long career and said they had “confidence in the Office of Hearings Operations’ leadership.”
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