[Nebraska-Students] Action Items - SSA Kiosks & COVID Testing

[Jamie K. Richey]

Greetings Fellow Federationists!

 

Below are a couple of action items received from the national office.  If
you have any questions please let me know.  Thank you!

 

The NFB continues to monitor the Social Security Administration's (SSA)
implementation of our 2020 settlement agreement regarding
visitor-intake-processing kiosks. With SSA field offices recently reopening,
we are gathering information about the accessibility of SSA's current
visitor-intake-processing methods. If you have visited an

SSA field office <https://www.ssa.gov/locator/>  

since their reopening in April 2022, please contact 

Valerie Yingling 

410-659-9314, extension 2440, 

 vyingling at nfb.org <mailto:vyingling at nfb.org>  

to share your experience. We are specifically gathering information on
whether the field offices are using kiosk, web-based, or human check-in
processes, and whether these processes are accessible to blind individuals.


If you have the opportunity please check out one of the Nebraska field
offices

 

*	Grand Island 115 North Webb Road, Grand Island NE 68803, (308)
385-6440
*	Lincoln 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln NE 68508, (866) 593-2880
*	North Platte 300 East 3rd Street, Room 204, North Platte NE 69101,
(308) 532-9502
*	Omaha 604 North 109th Court, Omaha NE 68154, (866) 716-8299

 

The NFB continues to gather information regarding the accessibility of all
at-home COVID-19 test kits and websites used to order these tests. Please
share your experiences via NFB's Access to COVID-19 Vaccine and Testing

Survey
<https://nfb.org/programs-services/legal-program/access-covid-19-vaccine-and
-testing-survey> 

The NFB has also created a The 

Templet Letter
<https://nfb.org/resources/covid-19-resources/covid-19-home-test-information
/template-letter-your-state-secretary>  

members can use or modify when advocating at the state level for
distribution of accessible, at-home COVID-19 tests.

 

 

Sincerely,

Jamie K. Richey, President

National Federation of the Blind of Nebraska

 

Office: (402) 477-7711

Cell: (308) 520-9024

E-Mail: president at ne.nfb.org <mailto:president at ne.nfb.org>