Thursday, July 26, 2012
Republican/Teabaggers to cut SSI anti fraud funding.
Because in the Republican/Teabagger cosmology it is better to lose as much as $5Billion to fraud than spend $800 Million now.
Cuts proposed by House Republicans to programs designed to weed out waste and abuse within Social Security could end up costing taxpayers more in the long run than the spending cuts themselves are designed to save, according to the program’s chief actuary.That's a lot for just one year. Must be a lot of Republican/Teabaggers affected by the reviews.
An appropriations bill that last week cleared a GOP-led subcommittee slashes 2013 funding for disability reviews and eligibility redeterminations, which seek to ensure that seniors and other eligible beneficiaries don’t receive more funds than they are entitled to. The proposed cuts would shave this specific budget item from the $1.024 billion agreed upon in the debt limit law last year to $272 million, saving nearly $800 million.
In a Thursday letter responding to inquiring House Democrats, Social Security’s chief actuary Stephen C. Goss concludes that cuts will cost taxpayers “between $5 billion and $6 billion more over the lifetime of those who would not be reassessed due to the reduced funding.”
The projection assumes the funding cuts are only for 2013 and restored thereafter.
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It's even worse than that, Montag. You can't get disability payments until after an initial eligibility review, and there's already a multi-year wait to get that review (though you get a lump sum back to the beginning of your disability if approved). This is a back door to eliminating the Social Security disability insurance program entirely, because it will increase wait times so far that most of the disabled who apply will die before receiving disability payments if the Republicans get their way.
- Badtux the Knows-disabled-people Penguin
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