Hearing Scheduled On Social Security Appropriation

The House Appropriations Committee's Labor-HHS Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, April 14 at 10:00 on Social Security's administrative appropriation for fiscal year 2011, which begins on October 1, 2010. This is not an appropriation for the benefits paid by Social Security -- those require no appropriation -- but for the budget, or limitation on administrative expenditures (LAE) if you want to be technical, which Social Security needs to administer those benefits. Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue is scheduled to testify.