Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
On April 16, 2018, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer stood at the Glenville Senior Center and revealed that without immediate intervention, Social Security field offices in the Capital Region, including the Albany and Schenectady field office, could be plagued with even longer wait times if the federal government doesn’t act quickly. According to Schumer, with the retirement of the baby boomers -10,000 reaching the retirement age every day - the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) workload has increased tremendously and therefore wait times have reached unprecedented levels. At the Albany field office wait times averaged 40 minutes and phone answer rates were 72 percent in 2018. For this reason, Schumer called on the federal government to immediately deliver new funding – which Schumer negotiated and President Trump signed into law - to underfunded and understaffed Social Security Administration field offices.