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June 12, 2013
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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 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 Ho...
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June 7, 2013
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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...
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June 5, 2013
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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, incl...
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May 31, 2013
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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 re...
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May 29, 2013
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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 repres...
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May 23, 2013
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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...
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April 26, 2013
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Good morning and welcome. 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 fo...
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April 24, 2013
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Good morning. We are meeting today to consider H.R. 807, the “Full Faith and Credit Act,” introduced by Congressman McClintock earlier this year. I will be offering an amendment in the nature of a substitute to ensure that the United States never defaults on a debt payment. In February of this year...
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April 18, 2013
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Included in the President’s budget proposal was a change to the way Social Security measures inflation – moving from the current measure to the chained Consumer Price Index. As Treasury Secretary Lew stated during his testimony before the Ways and Means Committee on the President’s budget, “The Chai...
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April 12, 2013
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Washington, DC – Yesterday, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) introduced H.R. 1502, “The Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act of 2013.” The legislation would keep people from receiving both Social Security...
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