Martin J. O’Malley was sworn in right this moment by Senator Ben Cardin as Commissioner of Social Safety to a time period that expires on January 19, 2025.

Commissioner O’Malley expressed his gratitude for being chosen to guide the Social Safety Administration. “I’m honored for the chance of a lifetime to guide Social Safety’s excellent public servants ahead, collectively, in such an essential mission to assist the company to ship important providers to the American individuals,” stated Commissioner O’Malley. “Social Safety is probably the most far-reaching and essential act of social and financial justice that the individuals of the USA have ever enacted. For tens of tens of millions of People throughout our nation, Social Safety is the distinction between residing with dignity or residing in poverty.”

A lifelong public servant, Commissioner O’Malley brings an unlimited quantity of expertise to the place. He served as Governor of Maryland from 2007 to 2015, following two phrases as Mayor of the Metropolis of Baltimore. Previous to being elected Mayor, he served as a member of the Baltimore Metropolis Council from 1991 to 1999 and Assistant States Legal professional for the Metropolis of Baltimore earlier than that.

Commissioner O’Malley is a pioneer in utilizing performance-management and customer support applied sciences in authorities and has written extensively about find out how to govern for higher leads to the Data Age by measuring the outputs of presidency on a real-time foundation.

As Commissioner, Mr. O’Malley shall be chargeable for administering the Social Safety retirement, incapacity, and survivors insurance coverage packages that pay over 1.4 trillion {dollars} yearly in advantages to greater than 66 million beneficiaries, in addition to the Supplemental Safety Earnings program that gives money help to roughly 7.5 million individuals with restricted revenue and assets. The company has a workforce of about 61,000 staff and 1,500 amenities throughout the nation and around the globe.

Since 2016, Commissioner O’Malley has lectured on public administration at quite a few universities and establishments, together with the College of Maryland, Harvard College, Georgetown College, and Boston Faculty College of Regulation.

Commissioner O’Malley graduated from Catholic College in Washington, D.C., in 1985, and earned his regulation diploma from the College of Maryland College of Regulation in 1988.  He and his spouse of over 30 years, Choose Katie Curran O’Malley, have 4 youngsters, Grace, Tara, William, and Jack.

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