Social Security is publishing the new regulations that will permit the agency to report claimants with representative payees to the database used to screen gun
purchasers. Those with representative payees won’t be allowed to buy guns. This will come
into effect before inauguration day. However, Trump can refuse to implement the new regulations. I wonder, though, whether the initial data transfer can be accomplished before inauguration day. Can it be easily removed from the gun control database once it gets in there?
By the way, whenever I post about this subject, there are always comments about Social Security appointing representative payees for people who have little or no problem handing money. Balderdash. I think most, if not all, of these comments are coming from paid shills. Don't be naive. There is a lot of right wing money being used to try to affect the political discourse in subtle ways. Don't get misled.
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Nobody likes appointing a rep payee. I would suspect close inspection would reveal far more people incapable of managing benefits in their own best interest lack a rep payee than competent people having a rep payee imposed.
@12:20 PM
I have been saying this will be a disaster, but I don't disagree at all with your point. The problem is it only takes a handful of the other kind with the backing of the ultra-powerful gun lobby to cause a huge problem. The problem isn't that there are tens of thousands of people with payees who don't need them. It's that the determinations are not consistent. I wonder if there is an OIG study like the one on waivers released this past year. Like waivers, capability determinations are so subjective that uniformity is nearly impossible. I honestly think if this is going to be put in place, an entirely new process for determining capability is in order.
A common theme surrounding SSI applications is that of a social services agency, such as a community mental health center, a nursing home, etc goes through the application process and uses their status to advocate for an individual to receive benefits. To me this tends to show that the particular agency has a proprietary interest in a client as to whether or not benefits be awarded. Indeed, most community mental health clients are in fact regarded as beneficiaries of the agency. Individuals are then "in the system" wherein their rental obligations, medical copays, a calculated cost of services, and other calculated costs, are deducted from the monthly stipend. Beneficiaries of these agencies may receive a weekly allowance to spend on incidental items. Taken in this context, a designated person serves as the beneficiaries representative payee.
I myself receive Social Security Disabled Worker benefits from injuries I sustained as an oil rig worker back in the 1990's. I myself pay my costs of living, food, clothing, and discretional purchases from my monthly benefit. A Social Security Auxiliary check is paid to the custodial parent of my underage daughter who is the daughter's representative payee.
There are rules set forth by Social Security as to when the need for a representative payee exists. This policy is implemented to ensure the payments are used in the appropriate manner for the beneficiary's sake. This system is not fool proof and many find this system annoying for some but the representative payee system has withstood since its beginning in 1935.
Your mother should have aborted you. You are a statist totalitarian bastard. MAGA!!!!!
@1:48 AM do Public Affairs Specialists count as paid shills?
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