I absolutely respect the Congress's efforts to collect outstanding debts. I just think that more focus needs to be on how those calls are made and doing so in a way that is more transparent.
Josh Shapiro
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Josh Shapiro is the 48th Governor of Pennsylvania, having taken office on January 17, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023, where he focused on issues such as consumer protection, public safety, and civil rights. Shapiro has been an advocate for transparency in government and has emphasized the importance of community engagement in development projects.
We need, in law enforcement, to have all of the tools necessary to stop this.
Look, we have Do Not Call lists, and often times seniors will say to me and Senator Casey, when we are back in Pennsylvania, 'But they still called.'
I would respectfully request to this Committee that you carefully look at the effects of permitting debt collectors, working on behalf of the IRS, to make telephonic calls to people whom they are collecting debts.
Having access to barges and storage tanks and pipelines gives the bank additional options to move or store commodities that most energy traders do not pursue.
It is impossible to come up with a precise figure, and we have tried. Right now we have been estimating somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 percent of all plans have a danger of insolvency.
My personal feeling is that the recent move we have seen to combined contribution plans in the past decades is setting us up for a real problem of an entire generation of completely broke 75-year-olds.
I think it is pretty clear to us at this point that defined benefit plans are posing a problem for employers.
We actually had people come and talk to us from other countries to ask the questions of, how do your plans work?
I definitely don't have the solution at this point, so I can't truly answer your question as it was asked.
The average benefit you are paying to someone who retired in the past year, ... was approximately $1,400 per month.





