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The US Social Security Administration website is available from 6am to 8pm, Monday to Friday (or at least it was that way a few years ago)
by bandrami 8mo ago
The US Social Security Administration website is available from 6am to 8pm, Monday to Friday (or at least it was that way a few years ago)
- shakna 8mo agoThe service hours seem a bit wider nowadays [0], but not 24/7. [0] https://www.ssa.gov/myssa-static/rel_1.0/offHoursPopup.html https://www.ssa.gov/myssa-static/rel_1.0/offHoursPopup.html
- mananaysiempre 8mo agoI’ve heard such things in the US were because of accessibility law that required the website (for the general population) to work no better than the associated call center (for the people who can’t interact with the website for whatever reason). On one hand, that seems obviously stupid. On the other, I don’t see how you could phrase a legal requirement of this nature.
- bandrami 8mo agoThat's better than my assumption, which was that it was running off the Visual Foxpro instance on somebody's desktop and that guy had to be logged in for it to work.