The Biden administration is finally trying to do something about this. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Dec. 13, 2021, directing the government to reduce burdens for people seeking government benefits. Officials in the Biden administration looked at this failure to apply the law to how actual people interact with the government, and concluded they weren’t living up to the letter of the law. The administrative burdens created by these requests appear in different forms for different people as they seek to access benefits. Advertisement“We’re trying to make it easier for people to get benefits they deserve,” Sam Berger, the current associate administrator for OIRA, said.

Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2023 15:47 UTC