During our General Session in Nashville, while Commissioner O’Malley discussed the importance of a properly funded SSA, we sent you a corresponding email asking you to urge your elected officials to support the President’s budget for SSA’s FY 2025. To date, 486 emails have been sent as part of this campaign! But we’re not finished yet. If you haven’t had the chance to participate, we urge you to read on and join us in this vital mission.

Since becoming Commissioner, O’Malley has implemented a host of needed and immediate changes to improve customer service and modernize Social Security, but there is more to be done. In order to significantly reduce wait times, update archaic technological systems, and properly staff offices, SSA needs adequate and sustained funding. 

You can help by urging your Representatives and Senators to fully fund the President’s request of $15.5 billion for SSA’s FY 2025 administrative budget, and to provide sustained increased funding going forward until SSA’s spending authority reaches 1.2 percent of annual benefits paid. As a constituent, your voice matters—together, we can make a difference.  

Social Security is currently operating at less than 1% of its benefit outlays—most private insurance companies operate at nearly 20%. By increasing financing, just to 1.2%, SSA could effectively streamline their services to drastically improve customer service. In hearings earlier this year, NOSSCR was there when Commissioner O’Malley explained the agency’s significant funding deficits and urged Congress to take action so that wait times can decrease and customer service can increase. Now it’s your turn.  

Click the button below to email your elected officials. With just one click, you will be urging them to support increased and sustained funding for Social Security. As Americans, we all contribute to Social Security’s trust funds with the expectation that we will be able to access their promised services—in order to meet those needs, Congress must now do their part.