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Talk About It - SSI

Talk About It - SSI. Host Patrick Corson and NetSignNews Anchor Tommy Bledsoe discuss the issue of SSI payments for the Deaf.


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Posted By Tammy

    Jul 19, 2008: 12:52 AM

Tommy you need to shut up the deaf don't abuse the system of SSI and SSD it's the hearing world that gives us no choice cause they wont hire us i have a husband who is fully deaf and is slow and has a low education and don't understand very well can't get a job and is partly blind in one eye and you tell me that he is abusing the system you need to shut your mouth. A deaf wife

Posted By Christopher

    Jul 18, 2008: 10:33 PM

Add, I suggest up to deaf people buy own Hovrs or Visable for jobs. Deaf don't need ask employee buy hovrs or visable. Employee save money for paycheck and equipment. Need stop think about ada. Hovrs and Visable help a lots deaf people. Hovrs and visable become buddy deaf people. Not worry about call interpretors drive to meets or hospital etc. Simple use Hovrs and Visable. Stop think about ADA. Deaf can do it and challenge. Stop think about SSI/SSD. If have reason. it is okay.

Posted By Christopher

    Jul 18, 2008: 10:19 PM

My opinion about SSI/SSD not important to deaf people. I agreed with Tommy who are person party head and lazy. If serious reason hard find job and problem heart etc., that is alright. I think so suggest stop SSI/SSD who is start school like as seven to Twelve grade, they need go to Voc tech or education. what are you think?

Posted By Debbie

    Jun 25, 2008: 08:40 AM

So Ramon.......what is your point other than explaining the details of the social security system?

Posted By ramon

    Jun 23, 2008: 06:19 PM

Ur option is not need discussing !!!Explame telling to u (Social Securtiy in the U.S, Currently Refers to the Federal Old-age,Survivors,and Disability Insurance (OASDI)Social Security in the United States is a social insurance program funded through dedicated payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Tax deposits are formally entrusted to[3] Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, or Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. The main part of the program is sometimes abbreviated OASDI (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) or RSDI (Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance). When initially signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, the term Social Security covered unemployment insurance as well. The term, in everyday speech, is used only to refer to the benefits for retirement, disability, survivorship, and death, which are the four main benefits provided by traditional private-sector pension plans. In 2004 the U.S. Social Security system paid out almost $500 billion in benefits.[4] By dollars paid, the U.S. Social Security program is the largest government program in the world and the single greatest expense in the federal budget, with 20.9% for social security and 20.4% for Medicare [5] The Social Security Administration is headquartered in Woodlawn, Maryland just to the west of Baltimore.Largely because of solvency questions ranging from immediate crisis to large projected future shortfalls, reform of the Social Security system has been a major political issue for more than three decades during the presidencies of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. (See Social Security debate (United States).)Unemployment benefits are payments made by governments to unemployed people. It may be based on a compulsory para-governmental insurance system. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be meager, covering only basic needs (thus a form of basic welfare), or may compensate the lost pay somewhat proportionally to the previous earned salary. They often are part of a larger social security scheme.Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, and often on conditions ensuring that they seek work and do not currently have a job.

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