Nationwide, those persons who have become disabled and can no longer work are finding it harder and harder to get Social Security benefits. In some jurisdictions, applicants for disability benefits wait more than two years to have their claim processed. ...
Such delays can cause applicants serious hardship.
For example, applicants could lose their homes while they wait for a decision. These financial pressures only add to the problems of people suffering from disabling medical conditions. ...
We would not tolerate such behavior from a private insurance company. We have the right to expect better treatment for such vulnerable citizens.
Social Security employees are dedicated and hardworking. Given the proper resources, they can eliminate the current backlog of disability claims.
Nov 15, 2007
Social Security Offices Woefully Understaffed
From an opinion piece by John Kuhnlein in the Arizona Daily Star:
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Read the full article, then the comments on the article--very scary--off-the-wall opinions of Social Security that gain currency in public discussion will do as much to doom Social Security as the politicians' incompetence.
It is time the American people wake up to the fact that most government agencies are not only understaffed but the remaining staff is lacking in necessary experience.
All because the Republican administration and Republican controlled Congress of most of the Bush years did not fund the agencies well enough to prepare for the all too apparent wave of boomers retiring from government servcie. It is endangering Americans' physcial safety as well as their economic safety. The FAA has not hired enough air traffic controllers to have experienced controllers to handle ever increasing air traffic. Their boomers have also been retiring and not replaced soon enough to gain needed experience. It will take billions of dollars and decades to fix this mess.
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