Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul recently wrote a letter to members of congress to outline the struggles the agency is facing due to a lack of funding for the agency. In the letter, as posted on the Social Security website, Saul admitted to a hiring freeze and requested Congress support President Joe Biden’s proposal to… Read more »
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Social Security Announces New Collaborative Program To Help Beneficiaries
Social Security announced the creation of the Interventional Cooperative Agreement Program (ICAP) as a new vehicle for the agency to team-up with outside entities to offer grants aimed at assisting Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries. According to an announcement of the program, the ICAP will enter into cooperative agreements… Read more »
Update On The Latest Social Security Scams
Social Security has continuously updated information related to its operation during the COVID-19 pandemic and on its update page the agency recently went into some detail about the latest Social Security scams that are out there aimed at getting access to the private information to profit off of. The government is working to inform the… Read more »
Senate Committee Gets Few Answers On Reopening SSA Offices
The Senate Finance Committee recently held a hearing on how Social Security offices have handled providing services to the public during the pandemic, which many critics believe has been inadequate since the agency shutdown field office service to the public in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When a Social Security representative was asked… Read more »
People Who Don’t Know Speak
It is time for another version of People Who Don’t Know Speak. Every now and then we like to checkout Social Security’s blog that deals with different topics and programs Social Security offers. One feature these blogs offer is a place to comment about the content of the blog. Typically, if you read most stories… Read more »
Poll Shows People Support Reforming SSI
A recent survey conducted by Data For Progress found that Americans support reforming the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and that people want community services for seniors and people with disabilities expanded. Part of the reform voters support most is to increase SSI benefits, which is a needs-based benefit for seniors and disabled individuals. Currently… Read more »
President Calls For Over $14 Billion In Funding For Social Security
Shalanda Young, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, outlined President Joe Biden’s agenda for fiscal year 2022 discretionary funding in a letter sent to Sen. Patrick Leahy April 9, 2021. Leahy is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A portion of the president’s discretionary spending requests deal with Social Security…. Read more »
Senate Committee Schedules Hearing On Social Security Service Issues
The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing on Social Security service issues during the COVID-19 pandemic scheduled for April 29, 2021. The hearing, which is titled Social Security During COVID: How the Pandemic Hampered Access to Benefits and Strategies for Improving Service Delivery, is the signaling by some who believe this will be the… Read more »
Social Security Employees Sound Off On Staffing Issues
We have made the point for years that Social Security is understaffed and has been so for over a decade. Social Security employees themselves confirmed this when they provided survey responses to The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) on ways to improve employee morale, recruitment and retention at Social Security. By far, the most… Read more »
Social Security Decides to Stop Sending ‘No Match’ Letters
About two years ago Social Security, under the leadership of Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, revived the practice for the agency to send “no match” letters to employers when they discovered that their employees had some sort of discrepancy with the employee’s W-2 records. The move was opposed by several members of Congress who wrote… Read more »
