U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, today announced a hearing on encouraging work through the Social Security Disability Insurance program. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in B-318 Rayburn House Office Building beginning at 10:00 a.m.
In view of the limited time available…
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The Social Security and Medicare trustees released our annual reports last Friday, May 31. These reports set forth the state of program finances as required under the Social Security Act. There are six trustees; four of them (the Secretaries of Treasury, HHS and Labor as well as the Social Security Commissioner)…
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Good morning. Today the Subcommittee will examine how Social Security protects the benefits of those who cannot protect themselves.
About 14 percent of those receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits need someone to manage their payments. These are our most vulnerable, including children and those who are mentally or physically incapable of…
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Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) made the following statements upon the release of the 2013 Medicare and Social Security Trustees Report. According to the report, at the current rate Medicare will go bankrupt in 2026 and Social…
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U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, today announced an oversight hearing on the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) representative payee program. This hearing will focus on the management challenges of the representative payee program and the agency’s plans for the future, given the aging of…
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Good morning and welcome to the third hearing in the Committee’s series on the President’s and other bipartisan entitlement reform proposals.
Workers have worked hard, played by the rules, and earned the right to a secure retirement that no one can take away.
Yet unless Congress acts to protect and preserve Social Security, beginning in 2033, Social…
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Every six years a new Commissioner is nominated and confirmed to lead the Social Security Administration. Congress deliberately created a term that might straddle political changes in the executive branch to underscore the importance of strong and independent leadership for this agency that touches the lives of every American citizen.…
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