Job cuts to Social Security Administration could impact New Mexicans

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Long lines at the Social Security Office in Downtown Albuquerque might get worse as job cuts loom. The Department of Government Efficiency is expected to cut about 7,000 Social Security Administration jobs nationwide in an effort to downsize the agency.

“It’s a little bit difficult when we have to come in here and there’s a million, billion, trillion people in here, and they all give us these numbers, and we all have to wait,” Christal Martinez said.

Martinez said she spent her entire day off at the Social Security office on Lead Ave…

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