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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Appointed Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Releases Statement on Stimulus
At each turn over the last 12 months, immediate delivery of EIPs has been, and remains, a top priority for this agency. SSAs public service mission is squarely focused on many of those who are most economically-vulnerable in our society and we owe it to our beneficiaries to ensure they receive their EIPs right away. In fact, it was the substantial efforts of SSA that successfully overcame the fact that the IRS did not have a mechanism to automatically identify Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients, some of the most financially insecure people in America. It was SSA that pushed the prior Administration and Congress to allow us to send to IRS a file of those individuals, who do not receive forms SSA-1099, so that IRS could automatically issue EIPs to them.
Since the time that discussions began regarding issuance of EIPs in the ARP Act, weeks before passage, we have worked tirelessly with our counterparts at IRS to provide to them the information they need to issue payments to our beneficiaries. Despite the fact that Congress did not directly provide SSA funding to support our work on EIPs, we have provided countless hours of assistance to IRS consistent with the laws that establish how we may use the Trust Funds that every American counts on us to protect.
SSA discussed with Treasury and IRS, both before passage and after enactment of the ARP Act, that the Social Security Act does not allow the agency to use our administrative appropriation to conduct work on any non-mission provision or program. Accordingly, we were not authorized to substantively engage Treasury or IRS prior to the ARPs passage. Instead, upon passage, we were required to pursue a reimbursable agreement with IRS because we received no direct appropriation through the ARP Act. From the outset of discussions, we kept congressional staff apprised of the hurdles this approach would create for SSA, and we have continued to update them on our progress with IRS as we completed the required interagency agreements.
Read more: https://blog.ssa.gov/commissioner-statement-on-economic-impact-payments
Can we just fire this a**hole now?
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)And force him to survive only on an SSI check ,monthly 700 and some change. for the rest of his asshole life.
Republican assholes with power to fuck over vulnerable people need to taste and live in poverty for the rest of thier lives..
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)sop
(10,205 posts)during my work life, but this is a whole new level of bullshittery.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)within the 24 hour deadline they were given and handed over to the IRS. How effing stupid does he think we are?!?! Id love to see Katie and her white board go after him.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)and only need updates (deaths and people removed, new people added). The memo sounds like corporate bullshit language to me. President Biden needs to polish his wingtips in the SSA directors ass, then appoint an asskicker who will hunt down and fire other Trump ratfuckers that are embedded in the agency.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)Its a data dump. They arent that difficult. He just didnt want to do it. There needs to be a mass firing of the rest of Twitlers appointees.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They simply cant be trusted to behave with ethics.
electric_blue68
(14,915 posts)Been retired for just over a year, and a non filer for a long time.
I got the other stimulus payments by
direct deposit in a timely manner. No problems.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Since it was deposited into an account never used for IRS purposes, I knew it had to have happened because the SSA finally turned over the information to the IRS.
Thanks to the Biden admin for forcing the Trumpers at SSA to do their jobs. I'm sure we'd be waiting a lot longer if not for their intervention.
-misanthroptimist
(811 posts)It's always someone else's fault. They can never just adult up and accept responsibility.