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Rep. Don Beyer today received confirmation that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Social Security Administration (SSA) had agreed to his request for a review of the decision to close its Arlington field office.

The review will “identify and evaluate SSA’s reasons for the field office closure … ascertain SSA’s plans to mitigate any effects on individuals currently served by the field office … (and) determine whether SSA followed its internal policies related to notifying your office and the public of the office closure.”

“The Social Security Administration should postpone the closure of its Arlington office while this review goes forward,” said Rep. Beyer. “It would be inappropriate for the office to be closed before the effects on the community are assessed. I thank the Acting Inspector General for undertaking this review, and look forward to its conclusions.”

Rep. Beyer noted in his May 1 letter to the OIG that, “closure of the field office will force my constituents to suffer from the lack of in-person services, especially to a metro accessible office. That is no small matter when many elderly and disabled Arlingtonians who may lack access to a car or internet access depend upon this field office.”

The letter from SSA Acting Inspector General Gale Stallworth Stone is available here.