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• Dudek calls for entire SSA offices to be converted to new Schedule F - April 25, 2025

• The planned conversions, intended for federal workers in policy-related positions, affect employees making as little as $40,000 per year.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  Acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek this month instructed staff to prepare to convert wide swathes of his agency to the revamped Schedule F, a move that experts say would stretch even the Trump administration’s wide definition of “policy-related” jobs “beyond all recognition.”

  The Trump administration last week began moving forward with implementation of the newly-renamed Schedule Policy/Career, a new job classification within the federal government’s excepted service for career federal workers in “policy-related” positions. Employees reclassified into the new job category would be stripped of their civil service protections.
  
  In an April 7 internal email obtained by Government Executive, the acting commissioner took a sweeping view of the role of policy at the independent agency.

  To read the full article, click here.

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