Not through any malice but just not understanding that this is supposed to be exempt.

I think it is even more likely that the Social Security personnel in states with very few survivors would not understand that those payments are not to be counted toward eligibility for programs like SSI.

Thank you again, Senator Nelson. Thank you again, and Ranking Member Collins, for your efforts. We are depending on you.

Surely, their unique needs deserve special consideration.

As Senator Collins mentioned, the inflexible routines, uniformed strangers, sudden loud noises, darkness and the loss of autonomy are experienced by survivors as intense post-traumatic stress disorder.

I think that reflects an institutional bias in programs that we have at the Federal level.

I hope my father's story helps illustrate the plight of the remaining 55,000 or so survivors in the U.S. living at or below poverty.

Let me begin by thanking you for calling this hearing to focus on the unique health and social service needs of Holocaust survivors living in our country.

This simply has to change.

I was shocked when you gave the statistic of more than 9,000 on the waiting list for services.

Do you think that the Claims Conference should expand its work in negotiating payments from the German government to include other countries as well?

We need to make sure that everyone in the Social Security Administration and all the other government programs where this is applicable are aware of, and apply properly and expansively, this principle.

Let me emphasize that I have always been a strong proponent of home health care.

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Patients are more and more asked to participate in the decision-making, and this is a tool that can help them do this.

I thank you very much for holding this very interesting hearing.

And I understand that, but that is different from a labeling issue is my point.

I think that is an excellent point.

I would suggest a tainted drug is very different from a drug labeling issue.

As a representative of a largely rural state, I know of many patients and health care providers that still reside in areas that have limited access to the internet.