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The Worst Agency within the Federal Government - Legal Administrative Specialist Benefit Authorizer Social Security Administration Employee Review

1.0
12 Jul 2023
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Pros

Benefits, Hours, Work Life Balance

Cons

You will have a 6 month training program that you must pass in order to continue on with the job. The hiring staff will not tell you this at the time of the interview, nor will they tell you this once hired. The training process isn’t thorough and you it’s 3+ years of training crammed into a 6 month period. Once training is completed you will not be able to move onto a higher GS-pay scale until you’re off of review, even if you completed your 1 year probationary period. Upper management speaks to you as if you’re their children and they are absent 90% of the time so there’s no way for them to know how your work ethic and quality has increased or decreased. Some instructors will ignore your questions and want to see you fail so they suck up to upper management and get their “promotion”. There’s a reason that this agency is constantly getting sued and has such a high turnover rate. The pay is atrocious and should at least start at a 9 and continue to a 12. Run far away from SSA

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Pros

The Program Expert (PE - direct supervisor) and my Branch Chief (Manager) were amazing. Those two individuals bent over backwards to try to get me the RAs I needed, and were honestly the only reason I stayed as long as I did. They were super nice and supportive, but it ended up being a bad fit for me. My Branch Chief did also allow me OT as Comp Time, up to 11 hours per day, to complete my workload, which I took full advantage of.

Cons

I have a disability that causes me to work much slower - about twice as long to complete my workload - as other employees. I took my appeal for reasonable accommodations to the National Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator (NRAC) at the time. I submitted updated medical information towards my appeal. I got a letter from the NRAC that due to the updated medical information, I was "no longer qualified" for my position. Since they only have to give RAs to "qualified" employees, I was fired the same day I received that letter.

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