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Tag Archives: Social Security Administration
Curses! No More Cursive!!
From our Late to the Party desk First, full disclosure: The hardwriting staff’s penmanship is a total mess, thanks to filling out thousands of Social Security Administration forms in the mid-’70s to get welfare recipients off the hook for overpayments … Continue reading
The Redemption Unit, VII
(Previously on The Redemption Unit: I, II, III, IV, V, VI) Pay It Backward When the last claimant’s benefits had been redetermined and the government added up its losses, it immediately decided to recoup them by initiating the Overpayment Recovery Program. Letters went out – … Continue reading
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Doing Good Before Doing Well
In these parlous economic times, college graduates are turning toward public service jobs to tide them over until private sector jobs bounce back. From Wednesday’s New York Times: In 2009 alone, 16 percent more young college graduates worked for the … Continue reading