According to CNBC, President Biden’s 2023 Budget allocates $1.6 billion to the Social Security Administration to improve services at Social Security “field offices, state disability determination services and teleservice centers. In addition, the funds would also be used to add staff to help reduce wait times and speed up the processing of disability claims.”
The article also notes that the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare believes that the additional funding could help “reduce customer service bottlenecks, including long wait times on the agency’s 800 number and for disability hearings, and help the agency reopen field offices that were shuttered during the pandemic.”