To be clear, this tech is already deployed across a lot of programs, govt or otherwise. In many states you have to be identity proofed with this type of stuff to get your unemployment benefits
And it’s trying to fix some of the crappiness of its application processes: www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
The initial rollout will be available to adults who have never married and are applying for Supplemental Security Income for the first time.
The agency is currently begging Congress for more funding: www.govexec.com/management/2...
The Office of Management and Budget made the requests as part of the process by which the White House and Congress prepare for the potential need to pass a short-term continuing resolution in Septembe...
All this has real consequences: as I reported in April, 30,000 people died while waiting for Social Security disability determinations during fiscal 2023 www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
SSA Commissioner Martin O’Malley sat down with Nextgov/FCW recently to talk through the agency’s biggest challenges, including how it delivers disability assistance.
Flagging that changing details like name / gender is one of the things that State isn’t offering online … check story for more details.
The federal govt has actually been working to revise educational requirements for years
This is the story they’re going off of: www.nextgov.com/modernizatio...
The IRS is waiting to switch away from the old Individual Master File “out of an abundance of caution,” despite hopes to potentially convert to the new one this year, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel tol...
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Thanks for sharing!! Hope you’re doing well
this is likely going to be felt by millions: Login gov is currently used in at least 1 program/ app in every Cabinet-level agency — and in over 40 federal and state agencies total — for programs like unemployment insurance, online personal health records for veterans and more.