1. Alaska
The staff was radically reduced between 2010 and 2021. A lot of states lost more than 20% of their Social Security staff. They include Alaska, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kansas, and a lot of others.
Alaska is one of those states that is full of baby boomers, and because a lot of them are choosing to move here, the demands on the Social Security Administration are super high.
After the pandemic and the inflation, this state was pretty badly affected by the staffing cuts, and the agencies were basically forced to shut down a lot of offices and fire a lot of their employers.
2. Ohio
Continuing on the same path, Ohio is another state that was brutally hit by Social Security staffing cuts. Even if Ohioans worked even harder after the pandemic began, doing everything correctly, they were still losing ground in terms of unemployment.
And because of this, a lot of people are actually worried. Some of them lost their jobs, and this led to longer waits for service and growing backlogs.
