for every dollar spent on the Meals on Wheels program, we save $50 in Medicare costs.
If instead of spending $800 million on the congregate meals programs, we doubled that to $1.6 million, can you just spea...
this is not a subsidy. This is money people earned, and it's just trying to help them get the money they earned.
this is also a profound moral question, a question about helping people retain their independence.
Social Security provides a safety net to keep people out of poverty, but it's a very modest safety net.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Ranking Member Burr, for holding this meeting today.
Did the U.S. Government agree to provide some kind of minimum float here?
I just want to express my concerns about that.
So these were additional requirements, $30 million worth of additional requirements?
So, if we could, I would like to go back to the Comerica contract for Direct Express, Secretary Gregg, that the Chairman...
I cannot understand--I understand they are handling more cards, but they are also getting more revenues in the way that ...
If we can reduce fraud by getting some increased percentage of people to say, no, this is not accurate, then we have not...
And that is how they bid for this and said they wanted to do it on that basis, not charge the government.
I totally understand this, because that is the best possible check, is if the individual receives a letter, a phone call...
That is right.
One-third of the seniors in a State, in this particular case Florida, are entirely dependent for 100 percent of their in...
My suggestion, when I said the letter, that it does not have the Social Security number.
the failure to recognize that the money is now moving to another account can lead not only to loss of benefits, but the ...
