Pallone to Trump: Hands Off NJ’s Social Security Offices
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) is demanding transparency from the Trump Administration following reports that dozens of Social Security Administration (SSA) field offices nationwide could be quietly closed, including two in his Congressional district in New Brunswick and Woodbridge that directly serve his constituents.
In a letter sent to Trump’s acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek, Pallone and more than 100 Congressional Democrats are calling on the agency to publicly disclose any planned closures and commit to keeping every current office open.
SSA field offices provide in-person help to roughly 170,000 people a day nationwide – offering support to seniors, disabled individuals, and working families navigating retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. Pallone warned that losing even one local site could have a devastating ripple effect.
“Shutting down field offices in New Jersey would hit my district hard,” said Congressman Pallone. “Many of my constituents rely on these in-person services, especially those who can’t access online systems, don’t have broadband, or face language barriers. Closing their local office means cutting off their access to the benefits they’ve earned. Donald Trump and his cabinet of billionaires are intentionally trying to break the Social Security Administration.”
In addition to the threat of full office closures, former and current SSA staffers are raising serious concerns about operational dysfunction at the SSA field offices in New Jersey due to destructive and haphazard resource constraints imposed by the Trump Administration. SSA field offices are unable to pay for basic office supplies like toner, printers, paper and even shredding services leaving sensitive information like social security numbers and addresses being kept in storage rooms.
“The Trump Administration is intentionally gutting the Social Security Administration to make it fail,” said Deana Hosie who recently retired from SSA Woodbridge. “My former colleagues are being forced to buy office pens on their own dime and do the job of ten people because Trump and his billionaire friends think our earned benefits are a ponzi scheme. Breaking the system that delivers what Americans have earned is going to result in the first failure to pay benefits in 90 years.”
There are twenty-four Social Security field offices across New Jersey all of which are open to residents of the 6th Congressional District:
- 970 Broad Street Newark
- 635 S Clinton Ave Trenton
- 6 Executive Campus Cherry Hill
- 200 Federal Plz Paterson
- 855 Lehigh Ave Union
- 190 Middlesex Tpke Woodbridge
- 325 West Side Avenue Jersey City
- 935 Allwood Rd Clifton
- 1350 Doughty Rd Egg Harbor Twp
- 149 West Broad Street Bridgeton
- 7 Meridian Rd Eatontown
- 401 Hackensack Ave Hackensack
- 7 Glenwood Ave East Orange
- 2200 State Route 10 West Parsippany
- 550 Jersey Avenue New Brunswick
- 274 Springfield Ave Newark
- 830 Delsea Dr North Glassboro
- 190 St Catherine Blvd Toms River
- 1046 Route 47 South Rio Grande
- 245 Us Hwy 22 West Bridgewater
- 79 Hudson St Hoboken
- 532 Fellowship Road Mount Laurel
- 20 East Clinton Street Newton
- 2620 Yorktowne Blvd Brick
The letter comes amid growing scrutiny of Elon Musk’s DOGE, which has reportedly urged the SSA to quietly shrink its in-person footprint. SSA leadership has previously denied closure plans, only to reverse course under public pressure.
Read the full letter here.