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March 28, 2008 The Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, NC) Social Security disability delay preceded Gaston County man's suicide
February 1, 2008 The Post Journal (Jamestown, NY) Higgins Targets Social Security
December 11, 2007 The New York Times (NY, NY) Disabled, and Waiting for Justice
July 25, 2007 The Washington Post (Washington, DC) Social Security is stressing out
July 17, 2007, Valley News Today, (Shenandoah, IA) Man who needs Heart Transplant denied disability
July 9, 2007 Charleston Business Journal, (SC) Budget cutbacks causing Social Security claims backlog
July 3, 2007, The New York Times (NY) Use Social Security to Seal the Border
May 23, 2007 Buffalo News, (NY) A slow, broken system of benefits
April 11, 2007 Asbury Park News (Neptune, NJ) Foe of Social Security appointed to leadership position in the agency.
February 14, 2007 Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) Delays plague disability program
February 18, 2007 Sentinel Journal (Milwaukee, WI) SSA employee looses files
July 18, 2007, US House of Representatives passes bill refusing pay to SSA Deputy Commissioner
April 19, 2007 GovtExec.com House panel questions plans to cut guards in offices.
March 3, 2008 FederalTimes.com Understaffed Social Security braces for retirement boom
January 4, 2008 Newsday.com Social Security to introduce debit cards
April 23, 2007 GovtExec.com Social Security and Medicare trustees provide their annual update on the health of the government's two biggest benefit programs.
April 2, 2007, GovtExec.com: 12. Quote of the Day "I don't know how you live with yourselves." -- Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., to OPM Director Linda Springer and Social Security chief Michael Astrue, on their agencies' inability to resolve delays in disability benefit appeals.