Social Safety Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano gives an replace on the company’s work on ‘The Claman Countdown.’
Social Safety Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano on Wednesday highlighted enhancements throughout the company, touting a big improve in scheduled appointments, higher worker morale and quicker name response instances.
“I used to be within the area workplace in Staten Island yesterday with Councilwoman [Nicole] Malliotakis, and the employees is delighted,” Bisignano stated on Wednesday on Fox Enterprise’ “The Claman Countdown.” “They’re dealing with shoppers. We’re scheduling visits.”
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The looks marked Bisignano’s first public remarks since firing again in a letter on Monday at criticisms of “mismanagement” leveled by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in opposition to the company’s modifications to its customer support practices.
Frank Bisignano, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Commissioner of Social Safety Administration, arrives to testify at his Senate Finance Committee affirmation listening to on the Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing on March 25, 2025, in Washingto (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Bisignano on Wednesday defended his tenure and referred to as the accusations “inaccurate.”
He cited enhancements to the SSA, noting 40% of area workplace visits at the moment are scheduled prematurely — up from zero simply 18 months in the past. He additionally stated the company’s common cellphone name reply time was 7.6 minutes in July, down from final yr’s common of 27.6 minutes underneath the beforehand confirmed commissioner.
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“We’re answering 33% extra cellphone calls. Our callers are ready lower than 60% of the time than they did, and so thus, that makes for a greater workforce,” Bisignano stated. “An individual certain likes to get a cellphone name answered in 4 minutes, not 4 days.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, throughout a Senate Banking, Housing, and City Affairs Committee listening to in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The SSA Commissioner additionally stated the company’s fraud instruments — together with its AI-based fraud detector, which has confronted backlash for allegedly solely detecting two circumstances out of 111,000 — are “very sturdy” and “proceed to get higher.”
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“Aug. 14 is the ninetieth anniversary of Social Safety,” Bisignano stated. “And the president has been very clear, and I am working underneath that mandate, that we will shield and protect it. And sure, a part of engaged on fraud, waste, abuse and effectivity is defending and preserving it.”
Signage outdoors the US Social Safety Administration headquarters in Woodlawn, Maryland, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Within the Monday letter solely reviewed by FOX Enterprise forward of its launch, Bisignano responded to Warren’s criticisms and defended the administration’s modifications. He wrote that the SSA is “experiencing a customer support turnaround after 4 years of lengthy wait instances and report backlogs underneath the Biden administration.”
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The places of work of Warren and Joe Biden didn’t instantly reply to FOX Enterprise’ request for remark.
FOX Enterprise’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.
