Some excerpts from a Las Vegas Sun editorial:
People waiting for their disability claims to be decided are going broke because the federal government cannot handle the claims quickly enough. ...
When it was under Republican control, Congress spent years trimming the Social Security Administration. In the past two years there were more than 2,300 jobs cut from field offices, where people go in to file and, as is often necessary, appeal their claims....
The backlog is a result of cuts that have left the agency at its lowest staffing level since the early 1970s, followed by a dramatic increase in claims. ...
Congress should increase funding and make whatever changes are necessary in the Social Security Administration to cut down the wait.
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