Social Security and Temporary Paper ID's

As a direct result of federal Homeland Security initiatives, many states are no longer allowing people to pick up their driver's licenses and ID's same day, on site. Instead, people are provided with a temporary paper ID just with their name on it, which may be accepted by police officers in state, while driving, but, is of very little use for anything else. For an indeterminate period of time, people have no means of effectively identifying themselves in many contexts, in particular, in social security offices, until and if their actual credential is received in the mail. As a result, the disabled and the elderly may be unable, for an extended and indeterminate period of time, to obtain information or any benefits from social security offices. There appears to be no obvious, practical, security related issue at play here. The Real ID initiative, with isolated, inaccessible credential production facilities, appears to be little more than a bureaucratic make work initiative, a waste of taxpayer time and money. Is there any way to persuade states to make credentials available immediately again, in state, on site, so as to remove this obstruction to the disabled and the elderly from receiving the benefits that they are entitled to? Any thoughts, at all?