If they can work from home, why do Social Security administrative law judges still need to come in?




Federal Drive with Tom Temin show

Summary: They can totally work from home. Everyone's been telework-enabled for years. But even as the virus threat widened, the administrative law judges of the Social Security Administration were told they'd need to work in their offices one more week, ending today. The agency seemed reluctant to go ahead on telework. It seemed weird to this judge, who's also president of the Association of Administrative Law Judges, Melissa McIntosh. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what's going on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices