Eighteen billion dollars.

The Social Security has been a good program, but to say we can't improve it, is nonsense.

I also noted in your testimony that you expressed support for the administration's proposed Disability Work Incentives Simplification Pilot Program, which would provide beneficiaries with the flexibility to return to work without fear of…

Do you have some statistics... on if 20,000 cases are appealed from the... to the Federal court?

complete these disability claims in days compared to months.

The number of workers per retiree has fallen from 42 to 1 in 1940 to about 3 to 1 today.

In other words, it is taxpayers' money you are asking for here. Right? $120 million.

To get Federal spending under control in the long term, we must reduce spending in the short term.

The number of individuals receiving SSDI benefits has jumped more than 10 percent in the last two recessionary years.

The greatest obstacle to our Nation's fiscal stability is ignoring our increasing entitlement obligations.

Instead of spending onetime stimulus funding on personnel, I believe the Social Security Administration should have been looking at ways to streamline the claims process.

I know it's not a total analogy, but in welfare reform, I know, myself, people that were drawing benefits, especially single mothers, a lot of them, and dropped out of school and we didn't knock out their benefits.