$250 stimulus check in 2010 for Social Security Recipients

well marie do you have the answer to the questions that i ask about the people on social security do they get their stimulus checks ? where did you get this info.

WHY IS IT WE HELP OUT BOTHER COUNTRIES BUT WE CANNOT HELP THE POOR AND DISABLED IN OUR OWN COUNTRY? I THINK THEY R 4GETING WHAT IS SAYS 9IN OUR OWN CONSTUTION WE THE PEOLE FOR THE PEOPLE THEY WORL 4 US SO WHY CANT WE ALL STAND UP AND SAY ENOUGH YOUR OUTTA HERE.

Here is the web site with the bad news. The little guy loses out again. Big businesses and banks get the stimulus http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SENATE_SOCIAL_SECURITY_BONUS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Clarcie:

Did it really surprise you that the stimulus check was voted down? Come on, wake up! The disabled, young and old are the last things on the mind of these politicians. They tell the young to go out and get your education, but in the same breath they cut education expenses. ( What ever happen the Lottery money was suppose to cover the education?) But anyway, we all know the politicians are pathetic, incompetent and one sided, there site.
And we are nothing more than sacrificial lambs in the game of life, or maybe pawns in the game of life. Anyway which you look at it, we are screwed and people should be getting use to it by now. I strongly this is only a start of the political mayhem we are going to experience. I wish everyone good luck on trying to survive now, I know times are tough. Just remember these people on Election Day, remember how they let you down, pushed your in the dirt and walked away. I know I will !

from clarcie hey tom no i wasent suprised about the dicision on the stimulus checks. i expected for it to be turned down , its just another way for the big wheels to get their way. just hurt alot, it would have paid a couple of bills that i cant pay guess i will have to try and get the money some other way, like thats really easy to do right. c.b.

Hey Jay:
You should pay attention and stop flapping your lips on issues you have no idea about. Do you have any proof we are lying pal? If you show it here, or keep quiet. If you know to use a search engine and have an inquisitive mine you would be able to find all the information we have been discussing here all along pal.

THERE ARE ALOT MORE OF US THEN THEY ARE OF THEM SO LETS JUST SHOW THEM IDIOTS IN WASHINGTON HOW WE FEEL COME NOVEMBER OIF NO ONE SHOWS UP AT THE POLLS AND VOTES THEN THEY JUST MIGHT GET THE MESSEAGE BUT I DOUBT IT I DONT THINK THEIR THAT SMART.

Well, well Mr. Brown. I voted Republican for the first time in my life for you. You showed your colors the first time when you had a chance to help the seniors, by vetoing the $250.00 stimulus for seniors, disabled vets, etc. Well, Mr. Brown as far as I’m concerned, YOUR OUTTA here! You didn’t last long. Come November when the seat you took over is due for reelection, you just committed political suicide, here in Ma. Now go out there and try and get a real job!

We need to send Congress a message, we need to flood their offices with petitions. Hopefully they will get the message, but then again will they actually read them or have their trained puppies toss them? One way to find out, as Americans we have that right to express our opinion on the way things are being handled.

And Susie by not going to polls, we are letting them win. We need NEW BLOOD in politics these guys in their have proved to us what we mean to them. Lets vote for the UNDER DOG, lets put some fresh faces in there and give them a shot. The time is now to take the stand and show these morons we mean business. So who is with me here?

What is it Oly?

have you ever heard the saying be careful of wolf in sheep clothing; it seems as if we are going to have to be careful who we actually vote for,
carefully search out there agenda if you can,because there are some wolf
among the sheep .

The link I’m posting is exactly what’s happening in America today. Obama is the spokesman because he’s a liar and a master of deception.

http://www.actforamerica.com

We need a Congress & Senate that is for the people, not for them. They received their raise and their raise is not small like our maybe $50.00 a year if we are lucky. Their raise is in the thousands and that cuts the budget. But they didn’t care about the budget then. We need a govt for the people, not for the democrats and the republicans. We need to break the parties. Lets do it people, lets get a new party.

http://www.savingtoinvest.com/2009/10/extra-250-for-social-security.html
I just read this. So if they just approve a stimulus why did they did not approve one for people on SS and SSI? That $250 would have gone a long towards my moving out expenses. Unforunately my rent was going up to $711 from $579. I found an apartment that was around the same price I pay now so I had to move.
Not getting a raise in the cola has already made my life difficult because some of my bills have gone up. My budget for 2010 is going to the tightest budget I have seen since 2004. Actually it is going to be worse.
As a full time college student I can’t get into low income housing. I have to get a master’s degree so I can teach online courses.
I am moving April 1st and I am desperate for some extra money. I am even going to work some extra hours to make up for this.

Just for those that think that this bill not getting passed is a lie…lol…umm!!!!The (HOUSE) and(SENATE) are two different branches of government a bill passes THROUGH the house then goes for a vote within the SENATE…K? The SENATE did NOT pass it.K?

Thank you for the info. And, also the link for impeachment. He’s such a fraud. Have a great day ladies and gents. God’s on our side. 🙂

Some of you people on here are listening to …too much FOX news ..impeach Obama for what trying to clean up after the Bushes….PLEASE>>>>>>>>>>>>>don’t bother responding to me I won’t be back to this web site/ blog I will suggest that some ought to get there facts straight before sticking their foot in their mouths…INGNORANCE …alot of it here…it is not bliss

Valorie,here
Thank you,Thank you Beverly or your post.True words could only have been spoken so well.
Plus we “All took those Corprate jobs
to earn those corprate checks to get these Social Security Retirement or
Disability check.Let’s remember this
country was in financil difficulty long
before Obama got their.
No ones going to like this….
People we have to remember?
President Obamba was raised in a mostly
white household and that where got his
basic values Think about it.
Don’t hate me because I did Too…….

clarcie,…..hey susie you are absolutely right about the senate and the congress ,they have the final say so and thats a darn shame people like us that needed that$ 250. don,t get it now, because of them. but im sure they will get there bonuses. c.b. p.s. we all need to getogeather and sighn are names to fight for are rights.

Would you please get rid of Tom Smith and delete all his posts? He is an annoying blabbermouth and should be deported to Venezuela.

Well i was surfing the internet and came accross this article,about SOCAIL SECURITY CHECKS MAY GET SMALLER…I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT TO KNOW WHY…HERE IS THE ARTICLE I READ….

Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors
by Ellen E. Schultz
Monday, March 8, 2010
provided by

A little?noticed law could soon result in smaller Social Security checks for hundreds of thousands of the elderly and disabled who owe the U.S. money from defaulted loans and other debts more than a decade old.

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Social Security benefits are off?limits to creditors, such as credit?card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by “offsetting,” or withholding Social Security and disability payments.

The Treasury currently withholds benefits of 3.1 million Social Security recipients to recover defaulted student?, farm? and small?business loans, unpaid income taxes, amounts veterans owe for health care, and other debts to the government.

Previously, the U.S. hasn’t been able to withhold Social Security payments to recover most debts delinquent for more than ten years.

But a provision in the 2008 Farm Bill lifted the ten?year statute of limitations on the government’s ability to withhold Social Security benefits in collecting debts other than student loans?for which the statute of limitations was lifted in 1997?and income taxes, where the limit remains 10 years.

SOCAIL SECURITY CHECKS MAY GET SMALLER FOR SENIORS

This means that a person who defaulted on a small?business loan in 1995, for example, and who is receiving Social Security could be notified that his benefits may be reduced each month until the debt, with interest, fees, and penalties, is paid. The Treasury can withhold 15% of the benefit, though it can’t be reduced to below $750. Tax debts have no floor.

The change will add more than $6 billion to the $75 billion in delinquent debt individuals owe the government, according to the Financial Management Service, the Treasury’s debt collection unit.

A Treasury spokesman says the new legislation “allows Treasury’s Financial Management Service to collect older debts and levels the playing field so that all eligible debts, regardless of age, are subject to debt collection. Treasury expects this legislation will result in increased collections of $10 million per year in delinquent federal non?tax debt.”

Though no one argues that people shouldn’t repay their debts, the change is coming at a challenging time for older Americans already pinched by mortgage woes, pension cuts and spiraling medical costs.

The shift applies to debtors of all ages, but Social Security recipients will bear much of the brunt. A Wall Street Journal analysis of Treasury Department data shows that Social Security recipients comprise a large and growing percentage of people from whom the Treasury recovers debts.

For years, most debt the Treasury collected through its “Offset Program,” came from withholding income?tax refunds. But with an aging population and growing unemployment, roughly 10% of the $4.3 billion in debts collected by the Treasury came from Social Security benefits in 2008, the latest figures available. That’s up from 1.6% in 2001, according to Journal computations that the Treasury confirms.

Though the law has expanded the age of debts that can be recovered, it hasn’t addressed the sometimes?Kafkaesque process debtors can face when challenging the validity of a claim.

Consider the predicament of Dr. Robert Steinberg, the founder of Scharffen Berger chocolates, who spent more than six years and thousands of dollars in legal fees appealing the Social Security Administration’s claim that he owed it more than $28,000.

Dr. Steinberg received disability benefits in the early 1990s while undergoing chemotherapy for lymphoma, a condition that ultimately claimed his life. Dr. Steinberg returned to work sporadically at a free clinic before co?founding the chocolate company.

Year later, the Social Security Administration notified Dr. Steinberg he was overpaid in the 1990s. In May 2002, with the matter still unresolved, the agency turned the debt over to the Treasury for collection.

In Oct. 2002, administrative law judge Gary Lee found that the Social Security Administration had never established the amount of the overpayment; had dismissed an earlier appeal “for spurious reasons”; had misinformed Dr. Steinberg and mishandled his later appeals; and had lost his file. He noted that Dr. Steinberg was “without fault,” and told the agency to stop its collections efforts.

Dr. Steinberg died in 2008, at 61. His lawyer, Peter Young, a former staff attorney for the Social Security Administration, has handled more than 100 overpayment cases, “very few of which were accurate,” he says. “Most people can’t find or afford help, and give up very quickly and end up with painful offsets on a fixed budget.”

An agency spokeswoman says mistakes can happen, but “over all, the process works.”

A Treasury spokesman says the new regulations require agencies seeking to recover debts more than a decade old to give debtors the right to review and copy their files, make payment arrangements, and apply for disability and hardship waivers.

But a recent dispute about a student loan shows that even with these rights, a person challenging an old debt can face hurdles similar to homeowners in foreclosure trying to modify a loan that has been resold.

In 2003, the U.S. began withholding $173 a month in Social Security benefits from Annie Brown, a paralyzed 75?year?old widow living in a nursing home to repay a defaulted $8,823 student loan the Education Department says she took out in 1989. The offset reduced Mrs. Brown’s benefit to about $980 a month.

Mrs. Brown said a granddaughter had forged her signature on a loan application. Her daughter and a lawyer spent more than four years disputing the debt with the owner of the loan, United Student Aid Funds, a student?loan guarantor that also was acting as one of the Education Department’s 21 debt collectors. USA Funds itself farms out various debt?collection activities to others, which it did in Mrs. Brown’s case.

Between 2003 and 2008, Mrs. Brown’s daughter and Lynn Drysdale, a legal?aid lawyer in Jacksonville, Fla., corresponded numerous times with USA Funds and two other debt?collection companies it hired. One letter from USA Funds warned that unless documents were received “within 30 days from the date this letter was generated…your case will be closed.” The letter was undated. Another letter required Mrs. Brown to refer to an attached document. There was no attachment. “I don’t know how a lay person could maneuver through this process,” says Ms. Drysdale. “Nobody seemed to know what was needed.”

In 2007, USA Funds denied Mrs. Brown’s claim, citing a recently passed federal rule requiring people claiming identity theft on student loans to obtain a criminal court verdict of the crime. That was impossible for Mrs. Brown; a statute of limitations for bringing a case had passed years earlier. In any case, she wasn’t alleging identity theft, but forgery.

Robert Murray, a spokesman for USA Funds, agrees that Mrs. Brown’s signature was forged. “It’s absolutely a forgery,” he says, “It \[the loan\] should never have been made.”

But he says that USA Funds couldn’t discharge the loan as a forgery because Mrs. Brown didn’t return a required form in 2005, and that USA Funds must rigorously defend claims. “There are borrowers who want to get out of a legitimate debt,” he says. “By the same token, we want to work with individuals who have a legitimate issue.”

Ms. Drysdale, the legal?aid lawyer, finally sought to obtain a disability waiver for her client. That process took more than a year, and was achieved only after Ms. Drysdale asked for help from the Social Security Administration’s ombudsman, who declined to comment.

In August 2009, the Education Department agreed that Mrs. Brown is permanently disabled, and discharged her obligation to repay the loan she never took out. The Treasury returned her withheld benefits in December.

from clarcie -hey steve if you did get a letter , then post it on this site where we can all see it . others havent come forward saying that they hae received a letter from s.c. it sure would be nice to receive the 250.00 dollar stimulus check.

3,900 stimulus checks went to prison inmates

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.

The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February. About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks.

Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits. However, 2,200 of the inmates who received checks got to keep them because, under the law, they were eligible, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. They were eligible because they weren’t incarcerated in any one of the three months before the recovery package was enacted.

?The law specified that any beneficiary eligible for a Social Security benefit during one of those months was eligible for the recovery payment,? Lassiter said.

The other 1,700 checks? That was a mistake.

Checks were sent to those inmates because government records didn’t accurately show they were in prison, Lassiter said. He said most of those checks were returned by the prisons.

?We are currently reviewing each of those cases to determine whether or not the recovery payment was due,? Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue said in a statement issued Wednesday evening. ?Where we determine payment was not due, we will take aggressive action to recover each of these erroneous payments.?

The Boston Herald first reported that the checks were sent to inmates.

The inspector general for the Social Security Administration is performing an audit to make sure no checks went to ineligible recipients, spokesman George E. Penn said.

The audit, which had already been planned, will examine whether checks incorrectly went to inmates, dead people, fugitive felons or people living outside the U.S., Penn said.

The $787 billion economic recovery package included $2 million for the inspector general to oversee the provisions handled by the Social Security Administration. The audit is part of those efforts, Penn said. There is no timetable for its conclusion.

The federal government processed $13 billion in stimulus payments. About $425,000 was incorrectly sent to inmates.

i took this off the socail security website…..

SOMEONE WHO IS A FUGITIVE FELON
An individual is ineligible to receive SSI benefits for any month during which he or she:

has an unsatisfied warrant for a crime that is a felony or, in jurisdictions that do not define crimes as felonies, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year regardless of the actual sentence imposed under the laws of the place from which the warrant is issued. The Social Security Administration defines this individual as a “fugitive felon”;

has an unsatisfied warrant for avoiding custody or confinement after conviction for a crime which is a felony or, in jurisdictions that do not define crimes as felonies, is punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year regardless of the actual sentence imposed under the laws of the place from which the person flees; or

has violated a condition of probation or parole imposed under Federal or State law.

The Social Security Administration will continue to pay an individual’s benefit if a court of competent jurisdiction has found the individual not guilty, dismissed the charges, vacated the warrant for arrest, or issued any similar exonerating order or taken similar exonerating action. The Social Security Administration also will continue to pay an individual’s benefit if the individual was erroneously implicated in connection with the criminal offense by reason of identity fraud.

Also, the Social Security Administration may continue to pay an individual’s benefit if the individual establishes that the offense underlying the warrant or imposition of the probation or parole (as well as the violation of probation or parole) was both nonviolent and not drug?related and there were mitigating circumstances for not satisfying the warrant.

SOMEONE WHO IS IN PRISON OR JAIL
If you are receiving SSI and you go to prison or jail, (this also includes correctional institutions, such as detention centers, halfway houses, boot camps, etc.) you are not eligible to receive SSI for any full calendar month you are incarcerated.

Please see our pamphlet, “What Prisoners Should Know About Social Security,” or view it online, at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10133.html, if you want more information about how being in prison or jail affects your SSI benefits.

In most instances, you can apply for SSI benefits and food stamps several months before you expect to be released from prison or jail. See the SSI spotlight on the Prerelease Procedure.

YEA STEVE YOU TALK BIG BUT SCAN AND SHOW YOUR PROFF OF THE LETTER OR SHUT UP WE ARE ALL SICK OF HEARING BOUT YOUR SO CALLED LETTER PROVE IT