A lawsuit filed on June 3 accused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other officials of using faulty data to carry out mass terminations at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The suit states that workers at the department saw problems in the termination notices they received on April 1, including erroneous performance ratings. One of the plaintiffs, Catherine Jackson, 68, who worked for the department’s Office of Child Care at the Administration for Children and Families, for instance, was listed as having a recent rating of three, but had never received a score lower than four in past ratings, according to the lawsuit.
