Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) made the following statement in response to the Social Security Disability Insurance fraud conspiracy in Puerto Rico. “I was outraged to learn of the unprecedented and widespread disability fraud arrests in ...
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Ways and Means Committee released bipartisan proposals to strengthen and protect Social Security. This follows several hearings in the Social Security Subcommittee on bipartisan proposals to secure ...
Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Principal Deputy Commissioner Daniel Werfel regarding reports that the IRS accidently released thousands of Social Security numbers. The letter directs the IRS to verify ...
Washington, D.C. – Today, Committee on Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Ranking Member Xavier Becerra (D-CA) introduced H.R. 2720, the Alexis Agin Identity Theft Protection Act of 2013. Named after a deceased child victim of identity ...
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee is accepting public comments on bipartisan proposals to reform Medicare and Social Security. The announcement follows several hearings held by the Ways and Means ...
Focus Of The HearingThe hearing will examine the impact of the DI program on the economy, efforts by Social Security to return individuals to work, efforts internationally to return individuals to work, and other options to encourage work. Hearing AdvisoryChairman Johnson Announces Hearing ...
Good morning and welcome to our hearing on encouraging work in the Social Security disability insurance program. The disability insurance program provides essential income security to people with disabilities and their families. Over the past 40 years, changes in demographics, Federal policy, and the availability of jobs have driven a 300 percent increase in ...
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 ...
Focus Of The HearingThe hearing will focus on the challenges facing the administration and oversight of Social Security’s representative payee program and how Social Security is planning for the increasing demands facing the program as baby boomers age. Hearing AdvisoryChairman ...