This is an amendment to add $150 million to the Social Security Administration account so that they can deal with the enormous backlog of cases that are pending there in people applying for disability benefits. The average wait is 523 days now. If a person filed today for a hearing in Social Security, they would expect to get that hearing in June of 2009. That is unacceptable. We need to do better. This amendment will help us do that.
Discussing an amendment to address the backlog of disability benefit cases at the Social Security Administration.
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