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Post by oldjag on Aug 20, 2009 20:01:38 GMT -5
Zero,
To give you the short answer to your questions:
no, both
good luck!!
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Post by kycolonel on Aug 24, 2009 8:51:31 GMT -5
Does anyone know any of the anticipated opening dates for the 2010 offices?
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Post by tigerfan on Aug 25, 2009 7:38:46 GMT -5
Topeka is scheduled to open in September of 2010 and I think most of them are scheduled for that month.
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Post by valard on Aug 28, 2009 9:20:45 GMT -5
Q: "Does anyone know any of the anticipated opening dates for the 2010 offices?"
The COSS indicated, in a Q&A session, that Harlingen would open in December, 2010.
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Post by its on Sept 18, 2009 18:47:47 GMT -5
Tallahassee and St. Petersburg FL are on schedule. They are due in fiscal year 2010 but we all know how GSA works, slow. Besides, with all the hiring , many F/O and ODAR offices are filled to the brim and overflowing with people and GSa must be even slower with all the space requests.People with no workstations or a place to sit. Nothing like putting the cart before the horse huh? Gov't planning at its' finest.
Fort Myers is changing from a remote site to a satellite office as per an announcement sometime back from the Commish or dep commish. Naples needs their own office. What happened to that?
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Post by crazybroad on Sept 19, 2009 9:54:36 GMT -5
Paterson, NJ is no longer the new NJ site. It will be Jersey City - better public transportation system to it for claimants.
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Post by extang on Sept 19, 2009 11:37:25 GMT -5
I am amazed by the suggestion that the availability of public transportation may have been a factor in determining where to put a hearing office. The Voorhees [formerly the Camden office] is in the middle of nowhere. Not only is it inaccessible to convenient [or any, I think] public transportation; it can be pretty hard to find even if you have a car. What eventually became the Philadelphia East office was originally intended to be in a place whose name I am not sure I remember but I think was Tinicum. This place is so obscure that even people who have lived in Philadelphia their entire lives are pretty likely never to have heard of it and even more likely not to know where it is. It also was spectacularly inaccessible to public transportation. The hearing office did not end up there, but it wasn't because of any concern about the claimants. If ODAR gives a damn about whether or how the claimants can get to hearings, it is indeed a brave new world out there.
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Post by lawmaker on Sept 19, 2009 16:18:39 GMT -5
I am amazed by the suggestion that the availability of public transportation may have been a factor in determining where to put a hearing office. The Voorhees [formerly the Camden office] is in the middle of nowhere. Not only is it inaccessible to convenient [or any, I think] public transportation; it can be pretty hard to find even if you have a car. What eventually became the Philadelphia East office was originally intended to be in a place whose name I am not sure I remember but I think was Tinicum. This place is so obscure that even people who have lived in Philadelphia their entire lives are pretty likely never to have heard of it and even more likely not to know where it is. It also was spectacularly inaccessible to public transportation. The hearing office did not end up there, but it wasn't because of any concern about the claimants. If ODAR gives a d**n about whether or how the claimants can get to hearings, it is indeed a brave new world out there. Interesting bit of history but I seem to remember that accessibility has always been an issue when considering where to put government offices. Both from the perspective of enabling employees to commute to the site and for the public aspect. It's a factor that I remember being an issue for many decades. Voorhees was probably selected in spite of absence of public transportation because of a particular interest by a politician. I am just guessing at that because I don't remember when it was built. But isn't Voorhees near Patco and a lot of intersections of major thorofares? As far as Tinicum. That's not a particularly convenient locale even in this decade. |
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Post by hope on Sept 21, 2009 7:08:12 GMT -5
Paterson, NJ is no longer the new NJ site. It will be Jersey City - better public transportation system to it for claimants. I wonder why they would do this since Jersey City is so close to Newark and the Bergen County area doesn't have an office at all. If they're worried about transportation, why not make the satellite office in Hackensack an actual ODAR office? |
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Post by lawmaker on Sept 21, 2009 18:14:21 GMT -5
Paterson, NJ is no longer the new NJ site. It will be Jersey City - better public transportation system to it for claimants. I wonder why they would do this since Jersey City is so close to Newark and the Bergen County area doesn't have an office at all. If they're worried about transportation, why not make the satellite office in Hackensack an actual ODAR office? Often times these locational decisions are made due to Congressional or similar political interest ie jobs and contracts for constituents. Sometimes it is merely the availability of a governmental office that has been emptied in favor of another location, but needs to and can be filled by another governmental unit.. Since SSA is trying to establish hearing offices rapidly to meet the oncoming increase in filings, there is probably a government office that will soon be vacant or has been for some time and SSA can move in quickly |
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Post by civilserpent on Sept 22, 2009 9:00:30 GMT -5
Voorhees office is slated to move early 2010 (was originally scheduled for late 2009) to an office closer to Camden. Instead of a long walk from a PATCO (local light rail) train, claimants will now have a long walk from a not so reliable bus. But the new location should be a bit easier to find.
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