Social Security Administration Cuts On Their Way...

[jtown1123]

Social Security Administration Cuts on the Way…
By NCPSSM | March 2, 2011

The House and Senate have passed the GOP stop-gap budget plan cutting $4 billion in federal spending over the next two weeks. This plan averts a government shutdown on Friday but leaves agencies like the Social Security administration facing furloughs, office closures, and delays in processing claims.

The GOP wants these cuts extended for the remainder of the year and the SSA has already warned employees of furloughs if that happens. Here’s a sample of what this budget proposal means for SSA and its beneficiaries:

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$1.724 billion in Total SSA Operations/Systems reductions

What does that mean for Social Security beneficiaries?

For every week that SSA employees are furloughed:

■ 100,000 people will not have their retirement, survivors or Medicare applications processed causing workers to wait longer for their hard-earned benefits during this period of economic uncertainty, and causing widows and surviving children to face continued uncertainty during a stressful time

■73,000 disability applicants will wait 30 days longer than the already unacceptable wait of almost 4 months

■18,000 disability applicants making an appeal will wait until 2012 to present their appeals to a judge

■115,000 new and 231,000 replacement Social Security numbers will not be issued, leaving workers without the documentation they need to start a new job or open a bank account

This is exactly the “starve the beast” politics promoted by those opposed to programs like Social Security for decades. Social Security works for millions of Americans each year, yet it’s still under constant assault. Defunding the agency as proposed in this budget resolution fulfills that political goal while also hurting millions of American seniors, the disabled, survivors and their families at the same time.

Source: http://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/?p=1614

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. This is completely unacceptable.

We are overdue to raise the roof on this one.

The beast that needs starving is the one the Republicans live in.

K&R

[RedCloud]

10. My dear California Peggy, we await your command!

Their war path is strewn with lies. Their words hurt us more than their bullets. To steal one's lifetime of work and savings ought to be a great felony.

[WCGreen]

2. This is fucking devious...

They are going to cripple the program and make people mad enough to say what do we need this SSA for anyway....

[jtown1123]

6. They are just going to keep pulling this shit too... SSA uses less than 1% of operating costs on

administrative stuff...just despicable they would target this.

[liberal N proud]

3. They are just going to cut Social Security and its beneficiaries off at the knees

[leftstreet]

4. America, Fuck Yeah !!

:grr:

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. Dem senate has passed it. Obama won't veto (spineless)

So there you go.

There IT goes.

[madrchsod]

7. i guess we just ain`t worth fighting for

one thing i do know ..republicans will fuck over anyone for a penny and the other side ain`t much better.

[Hannah Bell]

8. kr

[Starry Messenger]

9. k&r

[eridani]

11. The money to run ;SSA does not even come from the general fund!!

It comes from the Social Security Trust Fund and does not contribute so much as one thin dime to the deficit!