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The most recent semiannual report from the inspector general’s office at SSA says that while impersonation of SSA employees through scam phone calls were by far the most common topic of complaints meriting investigation, more than 161,000, there also were more than 1,200 threats to employee safety or other employee-related issues in that period.
It highlighted cases in which:
* A man twice made threats to an SSA employee and demanded reinstatement of his Supplemental Security Income payments, which had been suspended. “The man pleaded guilty to making threats to a federal official and, in October 2018, he was sentenced to 57 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release,” it said.
* A man “became belligerent with SSA staff during a visit to an SSA office and assaulted the Protective Security Officer assigned to the SSA office when the officer attempted to intervene. The man pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer and, in February 2019, he was sentenced to 3 years of supervised release, with credit for time served of 176 days.”