{"id":5399,"date":"2016-08-15T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/social-security-administration-changes-policy-to-better-accommodate-seniors-after-merkleys-urging\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:25","slug":"social-security-administration-changes-policy-to-better-accommodate-seniors-after-merkleys-urging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/social-security-administration-changes-policy-to-better-accommodate-seniors-after-merkleys-urging\/","title":{"rendered":"La Administraci\u00f3n del Seguro Social cambia la pol\u00edtica para acomodar mejor a las personas mayores despu\u00e9s de la insistencia de Merkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Portland, Oreg\u00f3n \u2013<\/b> After Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley wrote a letter to Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin last week to address his concerns over a new system that would block online access to benefits for seniors without a text-enabled cell phone, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced today that they would be changing the policy and will develop an alternative system for seniors without a text-enabled phone.<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;Seniors need improved access to their benefits, not technology-based roadblocks,&rdquo; said Merkley. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m pleased that the SSA responded to my call for change in their policy regarding accessing benefits. Only 35% of those over 65 use text messaging and it was unacceptable that the government was leaving out a huge portion of seniors without access to text-enabled phones. I applaud the SSA for heeding my call to develop an alternative system.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">La SSA implement\u00f3 recientemente esta nueva obligaci\u00f3n <i>mi <\/i>Funci\u00f3n de autenticaci\u00f3n de m\u00faltiples factores del Seguro Social para cumplir con la Orden Ejecutiva del Presidente Obama, &quot;Mejorando la Seguridad de las Transacciones Financieras de los Consumidores&quot;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adem\u00e1s de desarrollar una opci\u00f3n de autenticaci\u00f3n alternativa que implementar\u00e1n dentro de los pr\u00f3ximos seis meses, la SSA anunci\u00f3 que est\u00e1n revocando los cambios anunciados el 30 de julio.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>el<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> eso requer\u00eda un tel\u00e9fono con capacidad para enviar mensajes de texto y volver\u00e1 al sistema anterior que solo requiere un nombre de usuario y contrase\u00f1a.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR &ndash; After Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley wrote a letter to Social Security Commissioner Carolyn Colvin last week to address his concerns over a new system that would block online access to benefits for seniors without a text-enabled cell phone, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced today that they would be changing the policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-seniors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social Security Administration Changes Policy to Better Accommodate Seniors after Merkley\u2019s Urging - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/social-security-administration-changes-policy-to-better-accommodate-seniors-after-merkleys-urging\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social Security Administration Changes Policy to Better Accommodate Seniors after Merkley\u2019s Urging - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Portland, OR &ndash; 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