Tennessee Social Security, IRS, OSHA offices targeted for lease terminations by Trump Administration

Cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency will affect a dozen Tennessee offices leased by the federal government. (Photo by Getty Images).

Among hundreds of leased federal offices targeted for closure by the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency is a Nashville Social Security Administration space.

The list, posted on the DOGE website, gives no specific address for the Social Security office or information about its operations. 

A statement from the Social Security Administration said that the agency is working with the federal General Services Administration “to review our leases and ensure they are used efficiently.” 

“Most of the leases we are not renewing are for small remote hearing sites that are co-located with other Federal space,” read the statement.  “Other offices are non-public facing, being consolidated into nearby locations, or we had planned to close.”

The statement did not address questions about the specific purpose of the Nashville location slated for closure, but the space’s size — about 4,000 square feet — suggests it is not a public-serving office, said Chris George, a Nashville attorney who specializes in Social Security claims.

“They’re all much larger than that,” said George, who noted that the administration also maintains regional administrative offices in Tennessee, often with a handful of employees.

Social Security operates both administrative and public facing offices — large spaces where individuals seeking to claim retirement, disability or survivor benefits turn for help with applications or questions about their benefits. 

Last week, the Social Security Administration announced it would be reducing the number of its regional administrative offices from 10 to four.

Closing the Nashville Social Security office would save $712,000 annually in lease payments, according to the DOGE website. 

A dozen other federal offices are also targeted for lease terminations in Tennessee. 

They include a 135,000 square-foot-national office of the Internal Revenue Service in Franklin, and a 17,000-square-foot Internal Revenue Service space in Chattanooga; a 1,000-square-foot Department of Homeland Security border patrol field operations office in Chattanooga, a Occupational Health and Safety Office in Nashville, Food and Drug Administration offices in Memphis and Nashville and a Mine Safety Health and Administration office in Knoxville.