Today, the Social Security Advisory Board (“Board”) wrote to the Commissioner of Social Security about the short turn-around time from announcement to deadline for families to complete the online form to receive the $500 relief payments for eligible dependents under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act:I guess they feel something might yet be done. I hope so but my impression is that the people in charge are deliberately doing the least they can do. It seems to have gone beyond simple incompetence.
The Board’s letter urges the Commissioner to continue his work with Treasury to seek elimination of the filing deadlines for Social Security beneficiaries and SSI recipients. ...
- The April 22, 2020 deadline for Social Security beneficiaries was only announced on April 20.
- The May 5, 2020 deadline for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients was announced on April 24.
I don't understand why they're writing the Commissioner of Social Security. The problem isn't at Social Security. It's at the Department of the Treasury. Write Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, pictured above with his wife, Louise Linton.
They might if they could get hold of the irs. No phone answering over at irs.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone thinks that the short time frame is accidental, I suggest that is naive.
ReplyDeleteCruelty is the point.
I'd say that as the SSAB, their primary contact would be the COSS. THey aren't the TReasury Advisory Board.
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