Section IV:
a. This increases the Administrative Budget for the Social Security Administration, which has been cut in recent years and has led to a lower quality service. This also helps deal with some of the extra administrative costs that will come as a result of this bill.
Is this something that happened IRL or in-game?
IRL: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/admin.html
The budget has been cut quite significantly since 2010. This has led to staffing shortages, while workloads are increasing very quickly due to more and more people reaching retirement. I'm not aware of any changes to the social security admin budget since reset.
I asked because there actually has been a 'cut' of sorts to social security (and the social security administration) that occurred in-game when you were Deputy GM; some sort of multiplier was applied to all of the spending numbers, so the social security line in the budget was about 110 billion less than the RL value in FY 2018. Now that it's 2020, we are behind by around 150 billion, because that line has remained the same in every budget since (really, Congress should have been updating spending numbers every year).
So it might be worth it to fix that problem either here or in the FY2021 budget.
