Escucha ahora (17 min) | If you’ve ever experienced a long wait to get help from the Social Security Administration, the agency has some good news for you - the pace is about to pick up a bit. Repeated cuts to the agency’s administrative budget over the past decade by Congress have forced the closing of field offices, staff cuts, and long delays on Social Security’s toll-free line - and an enormous backlog of people waiting for appeal hearings on disability insurance claims.