Last week we reported that Virginia Commonwealth’s NTDC has been closed and all services terminated. This week Social Security announced that the center is open once more.
Melanie Webb, the Branch Chief of SSA’s Employment Programs, sent out an n email to the nation’s Community Partner Work Incentive Counselors (CPWIC) on August 6 declaring “We are pleased to announce that, effective tomorrow, August 7th, the NTDC at VCU will be fully operational once again. All training and technical assistance services will resume, and access to the myNTC portal will be restored.”
Thus was healed the rather unnecessary self-inflicted wound. Or so it would seem. There are concerns that there may be longer-term changes as the budget is reportedly still to be agreed upon. Watch this space for any further developments.