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March 06, 2018 at 08:16 PM
The Government Accountability Office said Tuesday that the Social Security Administration is in violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 because Acting Commissioner Nancy Berryhill has served for too long.
An acting commissioner can only serve for 210 days. No commissioner has been nominated by President Donald Trump to replace Berryhill, who’s been serving in her role since Jan. 20, 2017.
Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, plans to hold a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the need for a Senate-confirmed commissioner to lead the SSA, the challenges and limitations faced by the SSA when it is led by an acting commissioner, and the legal framework for filling a vacancy.
To date, the amount of time that the SSA has been without a Senate-confirmed commissioner “marks the longest amount of time any major federal agency has gone without a Senate-confirmed leader since 1995, when the SSA became an independent agency,” Johnson said.
