Last winter, I had occasion to go to the local SSA office...took an number and waited my turn. My sense was that I was at the UN building in NYC. I was the *only* Western person in the room. A majority of the people, of all age ranges were Spanish, Far Eastern [Oriental] and Russian. It was unnerving.
The SSA employees were very patient, polite and kind, much nicer than the DMV workers, I’ve encountered.
Pretty much that way across the nation. Young out of shape (fat) people, fakers and no-goods looking for disability, young mothers looking for supplemental assistance for their children, foreigner parents of now-legal immigrants applying for SS.....barely a blue-hair anywhere....the old saying “death by a thousand cuts” has been expanded to something like “death by a hundred million cuts.”
The spies come home eh!
Were you at the SSA center in Northern Virginia?