From Nextgov/FCW:
...The longer arc of this agency is a phenomenally dedicated, committed, compassionate culture. [SSA staff has] been traumatized by the increased volume and nine years of steady staff reductions, given the lack of any Congressional attention to our budget or even the decency of our own appropriations hearings, said [Social Security Commissioner Martin] O'Malley” ...
The SSI program “purports to be a program of last resort,” but “forces the poorest of people to jump through hoops, stand on their head and gargle peanut butter in order to qualify for it,” he told lawmakers at a recent hearing. ...
3 comments:
I live in Ohio and I buy Jif PB a lot. I don't really see the point of this post, unless it is to suggest that the poor eat more peanut butter. SSI limitations and SGA have not been updated in DECADES. SGA limits and the overall rules must now be GREATLY increased. The payments to our poorest and most desperate citizens are more than 40 years out of date!
SGA amounts change every year and have done so for many years.
SSI resource limits haven't changed in ages.
He’s absolutely right about SSI. It would be far cheaper and more effective to just give the small amount of money to any applicant with a qualifying income. But I guess it’s better to waste millions every year because socialism or whatever.
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