The Social Security Administration and DOGE announced a series of changes to the agency that will severely impact the ability of people with disabilities to receive their benefits. SSA is planning to cut personnel and close regional and local offices, increasing wait times for assistance and crowding the remaining offices. The agency also eliminated the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity, and the Office of Transformation. Finally, SSA announced a series of changes that would have made it harder to file benefits claims by phone, but later walked that back.