EMAILS - #14 "ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS"
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Fortunately, almost nothing accurate in this one except the figure $24 Million. Gotta love elections! : }
1. The House and Senate eliminated their automatic pay adjustments for 2010 and 2011.
This is the bill:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h5146pcs.txt.pdf
Calendar No. 359
111TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 5146
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL 28, 2010
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a
cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2011.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. NO COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT IN PAY OF
4 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no ad
6 justment shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legis
7 lative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) (relating
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2
HR 5146 PCS
1 to cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress)
2 during fiscal year 2011.
Passed the House of Representatives April 27, 2010.
Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER,
Clerk.
VerDate
more at:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/retribution-fabrication/
"No raise: House and Senate members have not voted to give themselves raises. ... Congress voted to freeze its own pay for 2010. Any pay raise for 2011 will take place automatically under existing law, unless Congress votes to freeze its pay again before then.
"Update, May 17, 2010: There will be no House or Senate raise for 2011 either. Congress passed, and the President signed, H.R. 5146, which eliminates the automatic adjustment in pay for Members of Congress that would have taken place in 2011."
2. The $24 Million is to speed electronic processing of disability benefits.
The $ is from the stimulus bill.
This is the Press Release:
Friday, August 7, 2009
Mark Lassiter, Press Officer
For Immediate Release 410-965-8904
press.office@ssa.gov
News Release SOCIAL SECURITY
SSA Press Office
440 Altmeyer Building
6401 Security Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21235
410-965-8904
FAX 410-966-9973
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/electronic-med-records-pr.htm
Social Security to Fund $24 Million in Contracts
for Electronic Medical Records
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced the availability of $24 million in contracts to provide the agency with electronic medical records to improve the efficiency of its disability programs. Through a Request for Proposals available on www.fedbizopps.gov, Social Security is looking for health care providers, provider networks, and health information exchanges to participate in its Medical Evidence Gathering and Analysis through Health Information Technology (IT) program.
“With these competitive contracts, Social Security continues to be a leader in the use of health IT to improve service to the American public,” Commissioner Astrue said. “This technology will greatly improve the speed and consistency of our disability decisions.”
The contract opportunities announced today are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. They will require awardees, with a patient’s authorization, to send Social Security electronic medical records through the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). The NHIN, a safe and secure method for receiving instantaneous access to electronic medical records, is an initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services and is supported by multiple government agencies and private sector entities.
Social Security is seeing a significant increase in disability applications as a result of the current recession. The agency expects to receive more than 3.3 million applications in fiscal year (FY) 2010, a 27 percent increase over FY 2008. To process these applications, the agency sends more than 15 million requests for medical records to health care providers. The use of health IT will vastly improve the efficiency of this process, which currently is largely paper-bound.
For nearly a year, Social Security has been successfully testing health IT to obtain electronic medical records. Disability applications processed with electronic medical records from the test sites in Massachusetts and Virginia have significantly reduced processing times.
More information on Social Security’s use of health IT is available at www.socialsecurity.gov/hit.
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more at:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/electronic-medical-records-for-congress/
3. Social Security adjustments are automatic, depending on the economy.
Congressional Budget Office, April 22, 2009:
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?m=200904
"By law, Social Security benefits are unchanged in years in which the change in CPI-W since the previous adjustment to benefits is zero or less than zero. Thus, CBO anticipates no COLA in January 2010."
FactCheck:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/social-security-cola/
"Social Security checks have gone up automatically every year since 1975, when the first automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect. Prior to that, a separate act of Congress was required to grant any adjustment to compensate for inflation. But this January, there won’t be any COLA, for the first time in the 35 years the system has been in operation.
"The reason is simple: The official measure of the cost of living has gone down, not up.
"And the major reason for that is that oil prices plunged from the peaks of the previous year."
Politifact:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/28/chain-email/e-mail-claims-democratic-congress-blame-no-cola-in/
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To: < Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:52:07 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:16 PM Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 6:21:06 PM Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: To: Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 2:23:51 PM Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS Subject: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS All Americans Had Better Wake Up, Even You People That Ask For "OBAMA'S Changes." READ THIS ABOUT YOUR SS CHECKS We need to keep this fresh in everyone's mind till Nov. The Obama crew thinks we will forget about it by Nov. Let's Prove Them Wrong. ** **THIS IS THE ONE THAT WILL FLIP YOU OUT!!** ** THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS FUNDING TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS--LET ME REPEAT THAT AMOUNT...* SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT $ 24,000,000.00 DOLLARS FOR NEW ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS PROCESSING FOR YOUR CONGRESSMEN** AND SENATORS !! *THEY ARE OBTAINING THESE FUNDS* *And* I QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY WEBSITE..."THIS MONEY WILL BE COMING FROM THE SAVINGS TO BE GENERATED FROM WITHHOLDING "COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR 2010 & 2011 In SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY AND A $2.00 INCREASE ON ALL MEDICARE RX BENEFIT CO-PAY" Please pass this to ALL your friends and have them "PROTEST TO THE IDIOTS WE ELECTED TO CONGRESS" Who by the way, have just voted themselves ANOTHER 3% SALARY INCREASE!!! We must put a stop to this outright thievery that has been going on for years! It is THE CONGRESS AND THE SENATE, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS, WE CAN'T FIRE THEM, BUT WE SURE CAN NOT RE-ELECT THEM, And WE CAN IMPEACH THEM* Or DEMAND RECALL ELECTIONS !!! HOW ABOUT WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND DUMP THESE CLOWNS. All I ask is that you consider the suggestion here. The entire Congress of the United States is corrupt. And I mean both Houses and I mean both major parties. I realize that a few Members of each House are trustworthy,* But, As a group they are absolutely the most corrupt bunch To ever disgrace our Nation. In November of 2010 The entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election; All 435 of them. One third of the Senate, A total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election. Vote every incumbent out. And I mean every one of them. No matter their Party affiliation. Let's start all over in the House of Representatives with 435 people? Who have absolutely no experience in running that body,? With no political favors owed to anyone but their own constituents. Let's make them understand that they work for us... They are answerable to us And they simply have to run that body with some common sense. Two years later, in 2012, Vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out.? We can do the same thing in 2014 and, By that time we will have put all new people in that body as well. We, the People, Have got to take this Country back and we have to do it peacefully. That's what the Framers of our Constitution envisioned. I am also suggesting term limits on the NEW BUNCH 8 YEARS FOR REPRESENTATIVES AND 12 YEARS OF SENATORS. NO EXCEPTIONS. THE LONGER THEY STAY IN OFFICE THE MORE POWER THEY GET AND THEY LOVE IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RE-ELECTED. WE HAVE TERM LIMITED THE PRESIDENT?? NOW LET'S TERM LIMIT THE LEGISLATORS Please, If you love this Country, Send this (as I have done) to absolutely everyone Whose email address appears in your address book..This thing can permeate this Country in no time. Let's make it happen. VOTE THE POWER ABUSERS OUT...LET'S TAKE AMERICA BACK !!! IF YOU LIKE THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING IN OUR COUNTRY, THEN DO NOTHING.. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************^
From:
Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKSj
Fortunately, almost nothing accurate in this one except the figure $24 Million. Gotta love elections! : }
1. The House and Senate eliminated their automatic pay adjustments for 2010 and 2011.
This is the bill:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h5146pcs.txt.pdf
Calendar No. 359
111TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 5146
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL 28, 2010
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar
AN ACT
To provide that Members of Congress shall not receive a
cost of living adjustment in pay during fiscal year 2011.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. NO COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT IN PAY OF
4 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no ad
6 justment shall be made under section 601(a) of the Legis
7 lative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) (relating
~~~~~
2
HR 5146 PCS
1 to cost of living adjustments for Members of Congress)
2 during fiscal year 2011.
Passed the House of Representatives April 27, 2010.
Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER,
Clerk.
VerDate
more at:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/retribution-fabrication/
"No raise: House and Senate members have not voted to give themselves raises. ... Congress voted to freeze its own pay for 2010. Any pay raise for 2011 will take place automatically under existing law, unless Congress votes to freeze its pay again before then.
"Update, May 17, 2010: There will be no House or Senate raise for 2011 either. Congress passed, and the President signed, H.R. 5146, which eliminates the automatic adjustment in pay for Members of Congress that would have taken place in 2011."
2. The $24 Million is to speed electronic processing of disability benefits.
The $ is from the stimulus bill.
This is the Press Release:
Friday, August 7, 2009
Mark Lassiter, Press Officer
For Immediate Release 410-965-8904
press.office@ssa.gov
News Release SOCIAL SECURITY
SSA Press Office
440 Altmeyer Building
6401 Security Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21235
410-965-8904
FAX 410-966-9973
http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/electronic-med-records-pr.htm
Social Security to Fund $24 Million in Contracts
for Electronic Medical Records
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced the availability of $24 million in contracts to provide the agency with electronic medical records to improve the efficiency of its disability programs. Through a Request for Proposals available on www.fedbizopps.gov, Social Security is looking for health care providers, provider networks, and health information exchanges to participate in its Medical Evidence Gathering and Analysis through Health Information Technology (IT) program.
“With these competitive contracts, Social Security continues to be a leader in the use of health IT to improve service to the American public,” Commissioner Astrue said. “This technology will greatly improve the speed and consistency of our disability decisions.”
The contract opportunities announced today are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. They will require awardees, with a patient’s authorization, to send Social Security electronic medical records through the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). The NHIN, a safe and secure method for receiving instantaneous access to electronic medical records, is an initiative of the Department of Health and Human Services and is supported by multiple government agencies and private sector entities.
Social Security is seeing a significant increase in disability applications as a result of the current recession. The agency expects to receive more than 3.3 million applications in fiscal year (FY) 2010, a 27 percent increase over FY 2008. To process these applications, the agency sends more than 15 million requests for medical records to health care providers. The use of health IT will vastly improve the efficiency of this process, which currently is largely paper-bound.
For nearly a year, Social Security has been successfully testing health IT to obtain electronic medical records. Disability applications processed with electronic medical records from the test sites in Massachusetts and Virginia have significantly reduced processing times.
More information on Social Security’s use of health IT is available at www.socialsecurity.gov/hit.
###
more at:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/electronic-medical-records-for-congress/
3. Social Security adjustments are automatic, depending on the economy.
Congressional Budget Office, April 22, 2009:
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?m=200904
"By law, Social Security benefits are unchanged in years in which the change in CPI-W since the previous adjustment to benefits is zero or less than zero. Thus, CBO anticipates no COLA in January 2010."
FactCheck:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/09/social-security-cola/
"Social Security checks have gone up automatically every year since 1975, when the first automatic cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) took effect. Prior to that, a separate act of Congress was required to grant any adjustment to compensate for inflation. But this January, there won’t be any COLA, for the first time in the 35 years the system has been in operation.
"The reason is simple: The official measure of the cost of living has gone down, not up.
"And the major reason for that is that oil prices plunged from the peaks of the previous year."
Politifact:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/28/chain-email/e-mail-claims-democratic-congress-blame-no-cola-in/
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From:
Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM
Subject: FW: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS
To:
From:
To: < Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 19:52:07 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 7:16 PM Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 6:21:06 PM Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: To: Sent: Wed, October 6, 2010 2:23:51 PM Subject: Fw: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS Subject: ABOUT OUR SS CHECKS All Americans Had Better Wake Up, Even You People That Ask For "OBAMA'S Changes." READ THIS ABOUT YOUR SS CHECKS We need to keep this fresh in everyone's mind till Nov. The Obama crew thinks we will forget about it by Nov. Let's Prove Them Wrong. ** **THIS IS THE ONE THAT WILL FLIP YOU OUT!!** ** THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION IS FUNDING TWENTY FOUR MILLION DOLLARS--LET ME REPEAT THAT AMOUNT...* SO YOU UNDERSTAND IT $ 24,000,000.00 DOLLARS FOR NEW ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS PROCESSING FOR YOUR CONGRESSMEN** AND SENATORS !! *THEY ARE OBTAINING THESE FUNDS* *And* I QUOTE DIRECTLY FROM YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY WEBSITE..."THIS MONEY WILL BE COMING FROM THE SAVINGS TO BE GENERATED FROM WITHHOLDING "COST OF LIVING INCREASES FOR 2010 & 2011 In SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR THE ELDERLY AND A $2.00 INCREASE ON ALL MEDICARE RX BENEFIT CO-PAY" Please pass this to ALL your friends and have them "PROTEST TO THE IDIOTS WE ELECTED TO CONGRESS" Who by the way, have just voted themselves ANOTHER 3% SALARY INCREASE!!! We must put a stop to this outright thievery that has been going on for years! It is THE CONGRESS AND THE SENATE, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATS, WE CAN'T FIRE THEM, BUT WE SURE CAN NOT RE-ELECT THEM, And WE CAN IMPEACH THEM* Or DEMAND RECALL ELECTIONS !!! HOW ABOUT WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND DUMP THESE CLOWNS. All I ask is that you consider the suggestion here. The entire Congress of the United States is corrupt. And I mean both Houses and I mean both major parties. I realize that a few Members of each House are trustworthy,* But, As a group they are absolutely the most corrupt bunch To ever disgrace our Nation. In November of 2010 The entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election; All 435 of them. One third of the Senate, A total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election. Vote every incumbent out. And I mean every one of them. No matter their Party affiliation. Let's start all over in the House of Representatives with 435 people? Who have absolutely no experience in running that body,? With no political favors owed to anyone but their own constituents. Let's make them understand that they work for us... They are answerable to us And they simply have to run that body with some common sense. Two years later, in 2012, Vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out.? We can do the same thing in 2014 and, By that time we will have put all new people in that body as well. We, the People, Have got to take this Country back and we have to do it peacefully. That's what the Framers of our Constitution envisioned. I am also suggesting term limits on the NEW BUNCH 8 YEARS FOR REPRESENTATIVES AND 12 YEARS OF SENATORS. NO EXCEPTIONS. THE LONGER THEY STAY IN OFFICE THE MORE POWER THEY GET AND THEY LOVE IT AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET RE-ELECTED. WE HAVE TERM LIMITED THE PRESIDENT?? NOW LET'S TERM LIMIT THE LEGISLATORS Please, If you love this Country, Send this (as I have done) to absolutely everyone Whose email address appears in your address book..This thing can permeate this Country in no time. Let's make it happen. VOTE THE POWER ABUSERS OUT...LET'S TAKE AMERICA BACK !!! IF YOU LIKE THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING IN OUR COUNTRY, THEN DO NOTHING.. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************^
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