Social Security Office Observation

The impact of all of these options are huge because they affect every American. The options provided here are the 6 biggest options when it comes to Social Security. Now that everyone knows what might happen, lets talk more about the when. In 2010, the amount of money coming in was to small to pay back to people. Interest from the trust bonds was collected to help aid in maintaining full benefits. As a temporary solution, shaving the interest off the bonds would have been a great fix, but the original problem still exists. Nothing has been done to balance the money in to money out ratio. Unless Congress makes some big calls, in 2020, the SSA will be forced to sell their bonds. With the interest already being collected, and now the bonds being sold, the amount of money earning interest would severely drop.

Being a high school student myself I do not have the fullest understanding of taxes or many government administrations at all but what I can say is I have a negative connotation to the Social Security Administration through my small amount of exposure to it through the media. When I researched it I was surprised by what I found. Despite my preset dispositions, the Social Security Administration seemed actually very helpful and I did not see where any hate could come from. Perhaps more interestingly I had read that it has been largely unchanged since it was first introduced in the 1930’s. The Social Security Act which created the Social Security Administration has positively affected our country.

In the United States, child support is court mandated and requires the non-custodial parent of a minor or minors to make payments to ensure that their child is financially taken care of. Title IV-D of the Social Security Act requires that all States establish a comprehensive program which works to locate non-custodial parents of children receiving welfare and to obtain child support from any parents located (Saltzman, Furman, and Ohman, 2014). Many incarcerated offenders are unaware that their child support payments accrue while they are incarcerated, potentially leading to a financial nightmare. A parent’s incarceration may not allow deviation from the guidelines set forth by the state. As seen in State

On this date worker visited Mr. Thomas Bagwell at his residence, for the purpose of monitoring his situation. Mr. Bagwell greeted worker at the door. The home was not cluttered and did not present an odor. Mr. Bagwell was appropriately dressed with good personal hygiene. Mr. Bagwell stated he was no longer receiving dialysis and Healthsprings was offering transportation to and from doctor appointments. According to Mr. Bagwell he likes living in the apartment and believes with rent and utilities lowered he will now be able to purchase groceries. Mr. Bagwell stated someone from M4A is working on getting him QMB approved and someone would be out to talk with him about the waver

The U.S. Social Security program is designed to aid residents in need through welfare subsidies. The programs are provided by organizations on federal, state, local, and private levels; and help to provide eligible residents with food, shelter, healthcare, education and money. Aid is provided through financial aid for college education, unemployment disability insurance, food stamps, pensions for eligible low-wage workers, subsidies for housing, and health insurance programs for public employees (Feldstein, 2005; Krugman, 2007).

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is provided to people aged 65 or older and the disable. During the 1990’s, many of the SSI recipients were people with disabilities. However, after new legislation, many of the disable recipients were dropped, majority being children. Some of those children were mentally handicap, had multiple impairments, personality disorders, arthritis, burns, etc. Eligibility was tighten by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 so that only the most restrictive medical diagnosis were accepted. Illegal and legal immigrants were denied supplemental security income until they became citizens and found work in the United States. Many people were not pleased with the changes and they even

The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) was founded in August 14, 1935 as an outcome of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second New Deal. As an attempt to prevent future destituion such as the one the nation was experiencing currently in the Great Depression, the program guaranteed an income for the unemployed and retirees 65 or older. Franklin D. Roosevelt created this in an "executive order.” The President put this into action by issuing an Executive Order. In the years following, the only changes to the program have been to expand the coverage for workers and increase benefits provided. To this day, the SSA still functions as a major dependency of Americans.

Social security in the United States is a federal system run by the Social Security Administration to provide monetary benefits, or welfare, to citizens who are retired, unemployed, or disabled. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Social Security Act which limited the dangers of old age, unemployment, disability, and families with dependent children within the United States during the great depression. In order to obtain the funds paid out to current social security recipients payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) and the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) taxes are collected from the earnings of current workers.1 FICA and SECA

A: In some cases you may be required to see a doctor as part of your disability case. This is actually pretty normal and most people filing for disability will be required to attend such an exam. As part of your application for benefits, Social Security has to come to a conclusion as to what your physical and mental limitations are. If your medical records don’t discuss your limitations, or if the administration feels that there isn’t enough evidence to establish your case, they may schedule you for a “consultative exam.” It’s important to know that this doctor isn’t going to treat your condition, they’re only going to examine you and give an opinion about your diagnosis

Applicants at the Social Security office include a great diversity of population such as white Americans, African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, etc. Through the observation, the applicants were speaking in different languages while they were speaking on their cell phones. Rules are respected and the behavior of the applicants is appropriate within the lobby area. It was observed a couple of woman with their children at the lobby and there is not restriction for children admission, as well as some pregnant women in the sitting area waiting for their

Friday September 24, 2016 Rebecca Mackay was escorted to the Social Security Administration office, to gain information on the status of financial benefits, and to obtain a Social Security card. The Employee at the Social Security Administration office, stated that Rebecca nor I could not obtain any information about the status on her financial benefits due to her having a payee. Only the payee is privileged to the information of financial records, however Rebecca was able to apply for a Social Security card, and should be receiving the card in the mail soon. Learning of the new found, I immediately contacted the case manager Diane Roberson, at the (The Up Center, Portsmouth) left a voicemail that described the rules of the Social Security

I would like to see the social security system completely reorganized and a higher retirement age for anyone born after the year 2000. This reorganization would not affect anyone born before the year 2000 in any way. However, anyone that can retire before 2035 will have the option to invest up to twenty-five percent of their current social security withholdings in a 401k type retirement plan. An option of this type would allow the individual to decide where their investment goes and thus reduce the amount that the federal government is responsible for paying out to any retiree that chooses this option. Anyone born after the year 2000, their retirement would be a combination of the two accounts and of the current funds being

For states to receive federal funding for adoption assistance and foster care title IV-E of the SSA (social security act) requires that when determining placement for a child they must consider giving preference to an adult relative higher than a nonrelated caregiver. This is only if the adult relative meets all the relevant state child protection standards. Title IV-E also requires that the states identify and provide notice to all grandparents and any other adult relatives suggested by the parents stating that the child has been or is going to be removed from their parents’ custody. However, there are often problems with this step of the process because the definition of relative differs from state to state. Some of the people commonly

The reason Social Security promises to pay current and future workers much more than it takes in, this is because of the system’s generosity to early birth cohorts, generations of workers now retired or deceased (U.S. Department of Treasury, 11). Social Security paid these workers, benefits that exceeded their lifetime contributions by more than 13.6 trillion, and in order to finance this gap, later birth cohorts must receive benefits whose value is lower by the same amount (U.S. Department of Treasury,

On 1/14/17, at about 0253 hours, I, Security Officer Josh Califf, was conducting a patrol of Gateway Medical Office and was unable to locate the contract security officer.