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Social Security Administration

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Wouldn’t work here again - Customer Service Representative (CSR) Social Security Administration Employee Review

2.0
12 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay, great retirement benefits, access to information that will help once you are retirement age and dealing with social security benefits, Medicare, etc. Able to work with people who are in need and get them benefits and assistance at numerous points in life (death, birth of child, permanently disabled, low income and disabled, etc).

Cons

Terrible training, you are trained and then immediately thrown into work were it take months to be able to navigate the many systems you use and YEARS to be comfortable at your job. Old systems that lag, go offline, and need to be replaced by something much more efficient. While there are people who are in need and pleasant to deal with, your day will be mostly being berated and called everything but your job title and that can wear on your morale (for some folks, some may be fine with it). There is a never ending workload that never gets easier, have to have a good work life balance because SSA will not help you create one. It’s hectic and chaotic everyday.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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