SSA in in the news

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Newspapers

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

 

Congress


January 25, 2008, Congressman Higgins (NY) introduces the Social Security Customer Service Improvement Act

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.

The Web

 

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.