{"id":889,"date":"2014-08-07T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/?p=889"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:51:05","slug":"trustees-report-on-social-security-and-medicare-trust-funds-for-2014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/2014\/08\/07\/trustees-report-on-social-security-and-medicare-trust-funds-for-2014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustees Report on Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The report is out with much the same problems noted.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">When are the President and Congress going to act?<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The Social Security Disability Fund will be bankrupt by 2016 unless legislation is passed.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It is totally unfair to have my retirement benefits cut because the Social Security Disability Fund is bankrupt but that is one proposal from the Administration and Senate Democrats.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Why not review the recipients again as required by law?<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Many of these recipients are not disabled but judged to have back problems and depression.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Many back problems can be treated with exercise, alternative therapies, and drugs.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Many depressives can be treated with exercise, counseling, and drugs.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The program is being scammed by recipients, too helpful doctors, states such as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Oregon<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Washington<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">, and consultants who receive $2,000 to $3,000 by converting Medicaid recipients to Disability recipients.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">No wonder the program is bankrupt!<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I ask your support in demanding immediate action to save the Social Security Disability Fund from bankruptcy and to put the two other critical trust funds on a stable path.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Sam Allen <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report is out with much the same problems noted.\u00a0 When are the President and Congress going to act?\u00a0 The Social Security Disability Fund will be bankrupt by 2016 unless legislation is passed.\u00a0 It is totally unfair to have my retirement benefits cut because the Social Security Disability Fund is bankrupt but that is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unitedwestandllc.com\/uws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}