Part of the Social Security website (ssa.gov) only works during certain hours
Part of the Social Security website (ssa.gov) only works during certain hours
.. its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?
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I particularly enjoy the "if you need immediate assistance" note for a telephone line that's open even fewer hours than the website. it's positioned as an alternative to the site, but absolutely isn't. Also, if that message is only displayed when the site is closed, there are no hours when the phone line is open but the site is closed, so who's it helping? You couldwrite it down and call it when it's open, but the site is also going to be open then, several hours earlier in fact, so is less "immediate" than the site that's closed.
I think it's less "this line is for emergencies" and more "our online process could takes days to get a response, here's a line to a real human".