Toby Roth: “as chairman of the Social Security Task Force, which was set up to watch over Social Security and protect our senior…”

“as chairman of the Social Security Task Force, which was set up to watch over Social Security and protect our senior citizens, I want to tell the Members how outraged I am that the Social Security Administration paid $32 million in bonuses last year, with one bonus of $9,256 to a person who was on the job only 2 rac{1}{2} months. He got more in bonuses than most Social Security recipients receive in a year. Last year Social Security asked for and received from this Congress an additional $200 million to pay for benefits to Social Security recipients. We now know that millions of these dollars went right into bonuses. This is not fair to our senior citizens. This is not fair to the taxpayers. The Social Security agency is the same entity that seniors tell me does not even answer their tollfree hot line. Mr. Speaker, when it comes to Social Security, I say that Social Security money must be used for Social Security purposes only. And no more bonuses, especially as long as we have these lingering problems in the Social Security agency.”