The Department of Defense (DoD) has cut nearly 21,000 civilian employees as part of its ongoing workforce reduction effort, with about 40,000 more cuts needed to meet its goal of trimming up to 8 percent of its civilian workforce, according to a Pentagon official. […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is offering its employees incentives to reduce the agency’s workforce by 7,000 people as part of what the SSA is billing as a “massive reorganization.”   […]