Ponce
5th March 2011, 08:28 AM
.The same way that the US governnment are using different excuses to invade different countries they will use this as an excuse to delay our SS payments......but........the estate of Israel must have their yearly allowence of 3-7 billions of our dollars............again......and again.......and again.
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Mass Strike Spreads to Social Security Employees.
March 4, 2011 • 10:15AM
Yesterday, picket lines were staged outside of 96 Social Security offices in 31 states, by Social Security Administration (SSA) employees, to dramatize the impact that the $1.7 billion cut in the SSA's current budget, proposed by Republican members of the US House, would have on the services they provide. The American Federation of Government Employees said in a statement, that, if the proposed cut goes through, it will enforce a month of furlough days between now and Sept. 30, 2011, "resulting in longer waits for benefits. Backlogs of those with pending disability claims and hearings could reach record levels, and waiting times at field offices, and busy signals at SSA's toll free number, would increase dramatically." The population most affected by this reduced level of service would be retirees and the disabled.
"Why would we treat this population with such cavalier insensitivity," asked Witold Skwierczynski, the president of AFGE National Council of SSA Field Operations Locals. The Democratic staff of the House Ways and Means Committee estimated, in a new report, that the proposed cut to the SSA budget would result in 400,000 people, nationwide, not getting their retirement, survivor's, and Medicare applications processed this year, and 290,000 people would not have their initial disability benefits applications processed, all adding to a backlog that SSA already struggles to control.
It's not just SSA employees who were protesting, either. In Seattle, Washington, SSA employees were joined by members of the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans, whose 91-yr-old founder told The People's World that "every Social Security recipient has a stake in defeating this budget cut in the administration of Social Security." Don Owens, a spokesman for the Strengthen Our Social Security Campaign, told the same paper that his office had reports of thousands of people all over the country joining the picket lines, especially in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. He added that Social Security workers had launched the protests in an "unprecedented show of solidarity with Social Security beneficiaries, not for their own benefit."
http://larouchepac.com/node/17668
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Mass Strike Spreads to Social Security Employees.
March 4, 2011 • 10:15AM
Yesterday, picket lines were staged outside of 96 Social Security offices in 31 states, by Social Security Administration (SSA) employees, to dramatize the impact that the $1.7 billion cut in the SSA's current budget, proposed by Republican members of the US House, would have on the services they provide. The American Federation of Government Employees said in a statement, that, if the proposed cut goes through, it will enforce a month of furlough days between now and Sept. 30, 2011, "resulting in longer waits for benefits. Backlogs of those with pending disability claims and hearings could reach record levels, and waiting times at field offices, and busy signals at SSA's toll free number, would increase dramatically." The population most affected by this reduced level of service would be retirees and the disabled.
"Why would we treat this population with such cavalier insensitivity," asked Witold Skwierczynski, the president of AFGE National Council of SSA Field Operations Locals. The Democratic staff of the House Ways and Means Committee estimated, in a new report, that the proposed cut to the SSA budget would result in 400,000 people, nationwide, not getting their retirement, survivor's, and Medicare applications processed this year, and 290,000 people would not have their initial disability benefits applications processed, all adding to a backlog that SSA already struggles to control.
It's not just SSA employees who were protesting, either. In Seattle, Washington, SSA employees were joined by members of the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans, whose 91-yr-old founder told The People's World that "every Social Security recipient has a stake in defeating this budget cut in the administration of Social Security." Don Owens, a spokesman for the Strengthen Our Social Security Campaign, told the same paper that his office had reports of thousands of people all over the country joining the picket lines, especially in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. He added that Social Security workers had launched the protests in an "unprecedented show of solidarity with Social Security beneficiaries, not for their own benefit."
http://larouchepac.com/node/17668