Topic - Social Security Administration

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  Social Security benefits to increase in 2012

  Seniors will receive a 3.6 percent Social Security cost-of-living increase next year, the first since 2009, signaling that consumer prices are rebounding even as the economy remains sluggish and unemployment is high.

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  Man living as an 'adult baby' is cleared of Social Security fraud

  The California man who lives part of his life as an "adult baby" and collects Social Security disability payments says the federal agency has cleared him of wrongdoing and will continue sending checks.

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  RAHN: Financial chaos winners

  There has been much discussion about whether the Democrats or Republicans gain a political advantage from the debt-ceiling-increase mess. An equally interesting and, perhaps, more important question is who has a vested interest in this financial chaos. First, a few facts: c It is estimated that between Aug. 3 and 31, the U.S. government will receive revenues of approximately $172 billion and have expenses of $307 billion, leaving a deficit for those days of about $135 billion. The revenues will be sufficient to pay Social Security and interest on the debt, but not many of the other obligations.

• GRISWOLD: E-Verify threatens American jobs and liberties

  If you are an unemployed American, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas has a job waiting for you. We only need to find and deport the 7 million unauthorized immigrants who are now mowing lawns, scrubbing toilets, frying hamburgers, plucking chickens, slaughtering cattle and picking onions and lettuce across America.

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  STEIN: Jose Antonio Vargas: Poster child for why E-Verify must be mandatory

  Jose Antonio Vargas, a former Washington Post reporter, has come out of the closet and announced to the world that he is an illegal alien. In his tell-all confession, published in the New York Times Magazine, he outs not only himself, but others who abetted his illegal presence and employment in the United States, including The Post itself, which continued to employ him even after a member of the paper's management learned that he had lied about his citizenship.

• Inside Politics

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on Tuesday urged Republicans to support raising the nation's borrowing limit. He said threatening to block the increase to gain deeper federal spending cuts could backfire and worsen the economy.

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  Federal pension payments follow some retirees into the grave

  Federal retirees often enjoy generous pensions, but some manage to keep getting paid even after they're dead and buried.

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  Senator questions benefits to 'adult baby'

  A key senator has asked the Social Security Administration to investigate how people who live their lives role-playing as "adult babies" are able to get taxpayer-funded disability payments — after one of them was featured on a recent reality TV episode wearing diapers, feeding from a bottle and using an adult-sized crib he built.

• After 55 years, Elvis falls off baby-name list

  Elvis has left the list. Ending a run that started in 1955, 'Elvis' did not make the list of the 1,000 most popular baby names in the United States.

• Son pleads guilty to pension fraud

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  Boomers see working longer as a necessity

  Baby boomers facing retirement are worried about their finances, and many think they must work longer than planned or will never be able to retire, a new poll finds.

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  HILLYER: Medicare at the point of a gun

  Federal judges disagree with each other all the time. However, it is rare for a judge to disagree utterly with herself and rarer still to do so within a single case. That's what happened March 16 when Judge Rosemary M. Collyer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that senior citizens can be forced to accept Medicare coverage they don't want.

• Virginia to advance date for E-Verify to June 1

  Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said Monday he will move up by 18 months the deadline for state agencies to start checking the legal status of state employees.

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  House GOP pushes through historic spending cuts

  Flexing their new large majority in the House, Republicans early Saturday morning pushed through a bill that cuts more than $61 billion from last year's spending levels, setting up a showdown with Senate Democrats, who have vowed to block it, and President Obama, who has said he'll veto it.

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  Social Security agency warns of workers' furloughs

  Upping the ante in the budget faceoff, the Obama administration warned Friday that workers who distribute Social Security benefits might be furloughed if congressional Republicans force cuts in federal spending.

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