11-18-2024, 02:10 AM
Miub Republicans Make Big Gains in Governors Races
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WASHINGTON Social Security is approving disability benefits at strikingly high rates for people whose claims were rejected by field offices or state agencies, according to House investigators. Compounding the situation, the agency often fails to do required follow-up reviews months or years later to make sure people are still disabled.Claims for benefits have increased by 25 percent since 2007, pushing the fund that supports the disability program to the brink of insolvency, which could mean reduced benefits. Social Security officials say the primary driver of the increase is demographic, mainly a surge in baby boomers who are more prone to disability as they age but are not quite old enoug stanley kubek h to qualify for retirement benefits.The disability program has been swamped by benefit claims since the recession hit a few years ago. Last year, 3.2 million people applied for Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income. In addition, however, management problems lead to misspending and add to the financial ills of the program, investigators from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee say. Federal disability claims are often paid to individuals who are not legally entitled to receive them, three senior Republicans on the House committee declared in a March 1 stanley botella 1 letter to the agency. Among the signers was the committee s chairman, Rep. D stanley quencher arrell Issa of California. Social Security acknowledges a backlog of 1.3 million Rkjs Allen West, Jason Chaffetz, opt out of Senate bids
Some California Democrats are getting nervous about Al Gore s strategy in the Golden State. Garry South, a top adviser for Gore in California, said this week that the vice president has done too little point out the Clinton administration s successes - and has failed to respond to TV ads for GOP rival George W. Bush that are running in the state. We re at a critical juncture here where there has to be some serious recalibrations with what we re doing, or we could be in trouble, said South in a speech to the Sacramento Press Club. Though he and other political observers still predict Gore will win California s 54 ele stanley water bottle ctoral votes, South said the race has tightened to single digits in state polls he has seen - a decrease from an independent Field Poll released earlier this month which gave the vice president a 13-point lead over Bush.South put part stanley website of the blame on the Gore campaign for not doing enough to emphasize Bush s record as Texas governor. Californians are not yet onto the fact that there s a huge chasm between what George W. Bush is blabbering about and what he can actually prove up on, said South. The Bush campaign, which has long fended off questions of whether it will write off stanley mug California, seized upon South s call for recalibration. How can you recalibrate what you re doing if you re not doing anything said state Sen. Jim Brulte, finance chairman for the California GOP. While Republicans are spending about $1