Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Same Government That Takes 655 Days To Process A Disability Claim Wants to Provide Health Care.
The United States Government can't process a Social Security Disability claim in a timely manner. What makes you think they can run our Health Care System. The disability backlogs dogs New York. It takes an average of 665 days to get a claim processes the Buffalo, New York Office-is one of the longest wait times among the countries 142 hearing offices. There are only a few that are slower than the Buffalo Area, Atlanta, Indianapolis offices are slower at 688 and 719 days, respectively. Processing takes 655 day is in Buffalo, which ranks the sixth slowest in the nation. The average wait time is 487 days. To try and shorten waiting time, the government is opening new offices and hiring judges. The average Claimant now waits two years, somewhat longer to get a hearing, "said Evan Zogoria a disability Attorney with Bingam Farms-based Provizer @ Phillips PC. "Our clients lose there homes, they are evicted from apartments, they lose there cars.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
OBAMA SOCIAL SECURITY CRISIS
The Bush Administration warned the Democratic Congress four years ago that Social Security and Medicare Trust funds were running out money, Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi Sneered at President Bush saying that they were trying to destroy Social Security. Harry Reid made a comment when the Bush administration tried to present a plan "Today the report that the so-called Social Security crisis only in one place the minds of Republicans. In reality the program is on solid ground for decades to come. The Obama administration is telling us that Social Security and Medicare is fading faster under the weight recession heading for insolvency years sooner than expected the government warned Tuesday. Social Security will start paying out more benefits than it collects in 2016 a year sooner than projected last year and the giant Trust fund depleted by 2037 four year sooner trustees reported. Medicare is in worse shape. the trustee the program for hospital expenses will payout more benefits than it collects in this year, just as it did for the first time in 2008. The trustee that the Medicare fund will be depleted by 2017, two years earlier than projected in last years report. The trust fund which exists on paper form in a filing cabinet in Pakersberg West Virginia, are bonds that are backed with the full credit and faith of the Federal government, but not any actual assets. That money has been spent on other parts of the government. Therefore, to redeem the trust fund bonds, The government would have to borrow in public debt markets or raise taxes. Treasury secretary Giethner the head of the trustee group said that the new reports were a reminder that the longer we wait to address the long-term solvency of Medicare and Social Security the sooner the challenges and the harder the options will be in the end. The President Bush warned Democrats but they did not believe him.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
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