WCCO: Gov’t Shutdown Impacting MN Social Security Offices

The shutdown is having a real impact here in Minnesota, especially if you’ve tried to get a Social Security card.

The Social Security office is open during the shutdown, but services are signficantly cut back.

Just one more surprise for Minnesotans who came to do business, and left angry.

They came all day long — one after another, after another. The door locked and the office closed.

Jeff Williams and his wife Traci drove to the Minneapolis office from Bloomington for a new Social Security card and left angry that the government is allowed to shut down.

“I can’t shut down and not take care of this little one,” he said, lifting his daughter. “I mean, they’re the government. They’re supposed to be taking care of us.”

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