NORMLAustimMom
11-13-2005, 07:36 PM
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) manages the United States' social insurance program, consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. To qualify for these benefits, most American workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings; future benefits are based on the employees' contributions. Yet today the diasability benifits paid out to our nations children and families affected by Autism are being paid more and more frequently. Each benifeciary of the SSA program receiving (Social Security Insurance) SSI having been stricken with disorders such as Autism are unable to contribute back into to the fund themselves. Unable to work due to lack of adequate child services available to these families, neither are their parents. Often "let go" from their employment missing too many days having to deal with behavioral issues at schools which are understaffed, funded, and lacking proper education about how to deal with such disorders are finding themselves at a loss. This creates a negative drain on the entire system, as two generations of contributors are left unable to do so.
Hope overtook my family as Social Security was brought front and center recently in American politics, finally the Social Security Administration would have to reveal the number of American children on disability receiving SSI payments. I mistakenly thought that now confronted with the cost of these children to the Federal Reserves our troubles would be the wake up call to all our nation.
Yet Congress has dodged another bullet on this issue, seeking now to eliminate the Medicare costs and the Federal Food Stamp payments included to families with children on SSI. America never stoped to ask itself, why are so many CHILDREN on a government medical program reserved for persons over 65? Or the next question. Why is our Federal Government paying a county welfare act of food stamps to so many families out of the national Social Security Administration funds?
Encompassing retirement, disability, and survivor benifits Social Security and the Social Security Insurance program are seperate, yet maintain a joint account. No wrong doing has been done by the goverment as SSI is a joint account with retirees SS (Social Security) benifits. When cashing the United States Treasury checks, no law has been broken as both benifits of retirement and disability are have legal access to the account. Draining what we once thought of as insurance only for the older generation, as disabilities among children were rare when this program was implemented, society is now burning both ends of the candle eating up this entire fund.
Payments to diabled children on this massive scale was something America never imagined could happen, yet the current statistics prove that is now a shattered dream. If all of the 1 of the 250 families receiving a diagnosis of Autism in 1993 for their child and thus qualifing for SSI, if even only 100 of those families applied for the monies available to them on average of four hundred dollars per month, four thousand dollars was awarded every day for the past 13 years; that is 18,980,000.00. Not acounting for the 805% increase in the past ten years or the medical costs to Medicare.
How can America be expected to help fix a problem if they are not aware it exists? It seems more as if they are trying to seperate out retiree benifits from disability benifits without admitting to the problem at hand. The life long care these children will require, and just where that money will come from. Congress is now trying to end run this "privatizing" Social Security to divide the retiree's benifits from disability, leaving the cost of our children up to each state.
America will soon be flooded at the county level with such parents seeking medical and food aid which was once provided by Federal funds. Nationwide the alarm will soon be rung drawing attention to these arsonists burning away our childrens lives and leaving only empty shells in their wake.
I only fear the backlash of the working people of America when confronted by a huge problem they never even realized existed, and are told they have to help pay for it as well.
This is the Government trying to pass the buck of responsibility to every state AFTER the horse is out of the barn. Congress was warned of this and their course of action seems to be cut these kids loose without ever admitting to what they have known for at least three years to the American public. There is an epidemic in our Nation and goverment only wants to silence it.
KMS
Hope overtook my family as Social Security was brought front and center recently in American politics, finally the Social Security Administration would have to reveal the number of American children on disability receiving SSI payments. I mistakenly thought that now confronted with the cost of these children to the Federal Reserves our troubles would be the wake up call to all our nation.
Yet Congress has dodged another bullet on this issue, seeking now to eliminate the Medicare costs and the Federal Food Stamp payments included to families with children on SSI. America never stoped to ask itself, why are so many CHILDREN on a government medical program reserved for persons over 65? Or the next question. Why is our Federal Government paying a county welfare act of food stamps to so many families out of the national Social Security Administration funds?
Encompassing retirement, disability, and survivor benifits Social Security and the Social Security Insurance program are seperate, yet maintain a joint account. No wrong doing has been done by the goverment as SSI is a joint account with retirees SS (Social Security) benifits. When cashing the United States Treasury checks, no law has been broken as both benifits of retirement and disability are have legal access to the account. Draining what we once thought of as insurance only for the older generation, as disabilities among children were rare when this program was implemented, society is now burning both ends of the candle eating up this entire fund.
Payments to diabled children on this massive scale was something America never imagined could happen, yet the current statistics prove that is now a shattered dream. If all of the 1 of the 250 families receiving a diagnosis of Autism in 1993 for their child and thus qualifing for SSI, if even only 100 of those families applied for the monies available to them on average of four hundred dollars per month, four thousand dollars was awarded every day for the past 13 years; that is 18,980,000.00. Not acounting for the 805% increase in the past ten years or the medical costs to Medicare.
How can America be expected to help fix a problem if they are not aware it exists? It seems more as if they are trying to seperate out retiree benifits from disability benifits without admitting to the problem at hand. The life long care these children will require, and just where that money will come from. Congress is now trying to end run this "privatizing" Social Security to divide the retiree's benifits from disability, leaving the cost of our children up to each state.
America will soon be flooded at the county level with such parents seeking medical and food aid which was once provided by Federal funds. Nationwide the alarm will soon be rung drawing attention to these arsonists burning away our childrens lives and leaving only empty shells in their wake.
I only fear the backlash of the working people of America when confronted by a huge problem they never even realized existed, and are told they have to help pay for it as well.
This is the Government trying to pass the buck of responsibility to every state AFTER the horse is out of the barn. Congress was warned of this and their course of action seems to be cut these kids loose without ever admitting to what they have known for at least three years to the American public. There is an epidemic in our Nation and goverment only wants to silence it.
KMS