Bedbugs, Bad Air Make Tulsa Social Security Office Unsafe: Union

Administrative law judges at the Social Security Administration are endangered by a bedbug “infestation” and high carbon dioxide levels at the agency’s Tulsa, Okla., hearing office, according to the judges’ union.

The bedbug issues have gone on “for far too long,” said Melissa McIntosh, president of the Association of Administrative Law Judges, which represents about 1,400 Social Security judges. McIntosh said another spraying to kill the bedbugs—which also endanger the public—is scheduled for Nov. 23, but she’s skeptical that it will resolve the issue.

“We strongly disagree with the AALJ’s characterization of the Tulsa Hearing Office as ‘unsafe’ and ‘unhealthy,’” ...