Social Security Eliminates Entire Department

The decision removes the agency’s Office of Transformation.

Blank government checks are run through a printer at the US Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it is eliminating its Office of Transformation, which it described in a news release Monday as a “wasteful department.”

President Donald Trump previously “mandated the federal government eliminate wasteful and inefficient offices and the Office of Transformation was a prime example,” said acting Social Security Commissioner Lee Dudek in a statement. “This redundant office was created under the previous administration and we are righting that wrong.”