“800” number

“We worked all last year to turn things around that were all going in the wrong direction,” he said of the efforts he undertook to reduce wait times on the agency’s 800 number and the backlog of disability cases.

In 2023, he said, wait times on the program’s 800 number had ballooned to nearly an hour.

The consequences have included wait times on the program’s 800 number that ballooned to nearly an hour, O’Malley said.

In a Monday statement, Combs’ attorneys denied the latest allegations and said that Buzbee’s earlier news conference and the 800 number for alleged victims that he set up ahead of Sunday’s “barrage of filings” were “clear attempts to garner publicity.”

The letters told her to call the 800 number and set up a payment schedule.