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

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

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you very much for holding this hearing today.

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.

I totally understand this, because that is the best possible check, is if the individual receives a letter, a phone call, some notification, and says, wait a minute and raises a hand immediately that there is a problem here.

My suggestion, when I said the letter, that it does not have the Social Security number.

for every dollar spent on the Meals on Wheels program, we save $50 in Medicare costs.

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

If instead of spending $800 million on the congregate meals programs, we doubled that to $1.6 million, can you just speak very briefly to the question of both how many people would be helped and how much money we would save doing that?

this is also a profound moral question, a question about helping people retain their independence.

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.