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WASHINGTON, Feb 21, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AFGE's National Social Security Council today announced that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has bowed to AFGE pressure to provide financial support to employees who are victims of Hurricane Katrina. According to Council President Witold Skwierczynski, because SSA failed in its responsibility to assist employees who were victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma the Council filed a national grievance against the agency in December of last year. Under federal guidelines employees of the U.S. government must request disaster assistance from their employer prior to seeking aid from FEMA. In the days following Hurricane Katrina many federal agencies launched immediate assistance and outreach programs for affected employees, but not SSA.
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This summer, Social Security is hosting a series of Ticket to Work Conference and Expos around the country to promote increased use of the Ticket to Work program. Using the theme "It Pays to Check It Out!" these one-day Expos will provide participants - beneficiaries, as well as employers and service providers - with a better understanding of how and why the Ticket can be useful for them. The Expos will ... introduce beneficiaries to the employment search process and the interview skills and strategies that they may need to achieve their goal of successful employment.
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This memorandum addresses the legal obligation of the Social Security Administration to provide qualified sign language interpreters to deaf individuals using Social Security offices. Federally conducted programs such as the Social Security Administration (SSA) must comply with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 USC Š794, as amended. SSA has adopted the regulation for federally conducted programs promulgated by the US Department of Health and Human Services. That Regulation requires SSA to provide effective communication with deaf persons by provision of auxiliary aids (e.g., interpreters). 45 CFR 85.51. The Regulation specifies that:
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The Social Security Amendments of 1980 made many changes in the disability program. Most of these changes focused on various work incentive provisions for both Social Security and SSI disability benefits. The 1980 Amendments ... required SSA to conduct periodic reviews of current disability beneficiaries to certify their continuing eligibility. This was to become a massive workload and one that was controversial. By 1983, the reviews had been halted, and in 1984, Congress passed the Disability Benefits Reform Act modifying several aspects of the disability program, including how disability reviews are conducted.
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According to SocialSecurityReform.org "Many concerned Americans and responsible lawmakers are starting to discuss openly the need for significant reforms in the Social Security retirement program. Their discussions reflect the rising level of concern across the country, especially among younger workers, that Social Security will not be able to provide them with promised benefits when they retire.
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What effect will aging Baby Boomers have on the Social Security retirement and disability programs? Huge might be an understatement. The Baby Boom generation is defined as those roughly 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. The first of the Baby Boomers began to turn 62 in January of 2008. That, of course, is the early retirement age for Social Security benefits. The Social Security Administration predicts that about a million Baby Boomers will take early retirement, even though their monthly checks will be 25 percent lower than if they waited until the normal retirement age of 66.
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