if we have established a program and that we do have people who are legally entitled to waivers and they want those waivers, that we need to make that accessible.

The waiver system is a mess.

To provide this service for only one card would be enormously expensive.

That is right.

So, can I just stop you there for just a second, Ms. Vallas.

One-third of the seniors in a State, in this particular case Florida, are entirely dependent for 100 percent of their income on that Social Security payment.

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 kinds of problems that Ms. Lane talked about for how long it takes to correct the problem?

I am sorry. Do you have some information about how much money they have made off this card?

We do not want you to consider helping these people with a waiver. We want you to do it.

Secretary Gregg, you are not going to get any push-back from me that the electronic system works better for the government and works better for almost all recipients.

It is our responsibility to oversee what it is that you do and it is your responsibility to carry out the law in a way that is accessible to those who need it.

If we can reduce fraud by getting some increased percentage of people to say, no, this is not accurate, then we have not only saved a lot of money, we may shut down some criminal activity, but we have also saved a lot of heartache.

And that is how they bid for this and said they wanted to do it on that basis, not charge the government.

I cannot understand--I understand they are handling more cards, but they are also getting more revenues in the way that they design the revenues.

So, if we could, I would like to go back to the Comerica contract for Direct Express, Secretary Gregg, that the Chairman raised earlier.

So these were additional requirements, $30 million worth of additional requirements?

I just want to express my concerns about that.