It doesn't profit enough for the time to sit on the phone. Text/email scams are profitable because they cost nothing. Labor intensive scams target bigger profits like someone's 401k or corporate information where you can get into ransomware, or if they are going for like an Apple gift card, it's get in get out. Social security would be a long con, and the chances of getting caught go up far higher/faster than your profit potential.

Even if some of these policies are reversed, will there be enough workers to put them back in place the way they were before?

This is a crime spree.

For all the chaos they caused, Republicans should be forbidden from governing anything more than keeping their mouths shut and staying out of everyone's way. What corrupt incompetent dumbshits.

That process is complex, and takes a lot of time. These DOGE boys just slapped something together in a couple weeks that had a zero chance of working properly.
Maybe working as DOGE intended, but not in a manner consistent with a validated system.
So, they fucked up the system...a side benefit of being more efficient and free from fraud and abuse.
I'm glad to hear they're shit is being flushed.
All the other agencies that have had "malicious" code inserted into their systems should do the same thing.

Lock them up

Rec

It was about crippling Social Security & it's reputation, so that they could hand it over to Wall St.

Social Security officials were smart to dump DOG-E code before it does more damage to the system & their reputation.