Action Alert–Demand Reform in the Social Security Process
For those of you who are on SSDI/SSI, I’m sure that you know how difficult it is for many folks to get on. It seems that we are in a crisis when it comes to that. Here is an Action Alert from the SSD Coalition. Please respond! If you want to call, the numbers are in the body of the Alert. if you prefer to fax at no cost, click on the Take Action link. That will send you to a page where you’ll find a prewritten letter that you can edit. Fill out the form and click on the send button, and you’re done.
Demand Reform in the Social Security Process
Call and fax Congress!
Dear Advocates,
People with disabilities who apply for Social Security benefits face enormous obstacles. The average wait to receive benefits is 517 days, and that’s if your claim is approved! Nationally as of March 2008, over 64% of disability cases were denied at the initial stage of the disability claims process and it took from 104.5 – 114 days for claimants to receive the initial decision on their claim. While waiting for Social Security benefits, people often lose everything they have–their home, their savings, and sometimes, their lives–during 2006 and 2007, at least 16,000 people fighting for Social Security Disability benefits died while awaiting a decision!
Please call and fax the following letter to members of Congress and the Senate and ask that they reform the Social Security process by:
Approve that the FY 2009 appropriated funding for SSA’s administrative resources, be no less and even more than $240 million above the President’s FY 2009 Budget Request.
Pass Legislation: Fullerton - Edwards Social Security Disability Reform Act.
Call for Open Hearings and Special Social Security Disability Task Force.
Provide more Independent Oversight on The SSA.
Congressman Charles Rangel
Phone: 202-225-4365
Congressman Michael McNulty
Phone: 202-225-5076
Congressman David R Obey
Phone: 202-225-3365
Congressman Henry Waxman
Phone: 202-225-3976
Senator Max Baucus
Phone: 202-224-2651
Senator Charles Schumer
Phone: 202-224-6542