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  "caveats": [
    "Office record counts are source records, not verified unique public entrances or buildings.",
    "SSA source publication date and local import date are different; the import date is not an on-site verification date.",
    "The snapshot does not confirm current temporary closures, appointment availability, wait times, parking, accessibility, or office-specific services.",
    "Source names indicating FOSU are retained in excluded-records.json and omitted from the visitor directory because public visit eligibility was not verified.",
    "A source-listed CLOSED day is retained as source information; no public hours for the week is not evidence of permanent closure.",
    "Coordinates and distance ordering are estimates based on ZIP areas, not exact office geocodes, travel distances, or SSA service-area assignments.",
    "GeoNames postal coordinates may be estimated from place names or nearby postal codes. This snapshot matched all included office ZIP/state pairs; a future record without a matching pair must have no coordinates rather than a guessed location.",
    "SSA remains the primary source to confirm the correct office for a task and conditions before visiting."
  ]
}