From Fox 4:
59-year-old Ramona Rakestraw said she has relied on Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, as her sole source of income while battling kidney disease and cancer. She tells FOX 4 that her payments stopped in October after she was told her immigration status was under review.
Rakestraw said she was born in 1966 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas [where JFK was taken after being shot] and has never lived outside Dallas County nor has she traveled outside the United States.
Kidney disease first sent Rakestraw to dialysis at age 28.
She later received a transplant, but about 30 years later she returned to dialysis and received a cancer diagnosis in 2024. …
Rakestraw said she took her identification and birth certificate to her local Social Security office in an effort to resolve the issue.
"That’s my income, my whole income," she said. …
Rakestraw said she has filed an appeal and completed the required paperwork. …
And now the problem has been solved. It only took the involvement of a TV station.
DJT wanted to be dictator on day one …two… three…
ReplyDeleteA quick easy error the agency will be happy to fix. But then will boot off all the illegals collecting payments.
ReplyDeletehow many undocumented people do you think are actually getting benefits? do you think it will outweigh the number of citizens who are kicked off? Not all of them can wait a couple months with no income for it to get fixed. Or at least they can't do so without becoming homeless.
DeleteCome on. this is the kind of mistake that we see all the time. Someone, at some point, miscoded the claim and now that has to be fixed. But, it is a fix that any reasonably competent DO employee, possibly requiring authorization from a supervisor, should have made on the spot when she showed up at the DO. Of course, nowadays, she would have to wait for an appointment if no one would see her right away at the DO and it should not have required a TV station to make it a story. If that really was needed, then what was the Office Director doing when she first showed up?
ReplyDeleteFind me a reasonably competent DO employee, or OC employee. I dare you! It took 11 Months, a Congressional Inquiry and public shaming to get a Medicare card name change due to those competent DO employees.
DeleteOf all the things the news could write about SSA this seems as the kids say sus. We definitely don’t have the whole story! I have seen people on SSI that would frequently “visit” other countries and they had to change their LA status. (Really weird!) Then again maybe that office has them do that instead of N20. Or maybe just maybe the CS copied and pasted the wrong ssn and put in the suspense for the wrong person. I have alot more questions before I would jump to conclusions. Maybe the news should have had a story on walk in traffic being refused, thats the real story!!
ReplyDeleteWhile it's inevitable that some mistakes will occur, my worry is about the vastly increased data sharing from sources that are questionable as far as being up to date, accurate, and fit for the alternative that uses SSA may use them for. If that goes forward without a lot of due diligence, it will throw a huge monkey wrench into the works, as more and more cases get inappropriately flagged. More harm to the public and more headaches for the agency. Fix it then use it please, not the other way around.
ReplyDeleteI had to call SSA six times, and go in twice into the SSA office without resolution. I provided written memos with IRS Tax Transcripts and my tax returns in order to have SSA adjust my Medicare Premium to the $202.50 without IRMMA. They kept telling me i have to compIete SSA 44 but I kept staing its not a life changing circumstance, you just have the wrong amount of 2024 gross income. I finally had to get my Senator involved and than it was rectified. I want my 10 hours of my life back dealing with incompetence!
ReplyDeleteHave you contacted DOGE to get compensation for lost time? Maybe you are owed a Tesla?
DeleteI want my 10 hours of my life back dealing with incompetence!