http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#195806 In today's Union Tribune March 09, 2010, there is an article that lawmakers are working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill. The bill is being led by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and plan to meet with President Obama this week to update him on their work. If you can call or write your Senators and Congressman and ask them to include the repeal of noncitizens/immigrants petitioned by their relatives to come to America from receiving SSI and Medicaid benefits. Monetary and healthcare support should be provided by the petitioner as stated on their affidavit of support which was the condition before petitions are approved.... 195806@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#194881 http://www.2spencers.com/social-security-blog/2010/01/29/how-much-is-social... /> curity-paying-to-ssi-recipients-in-2010/ The above link was published on January 29, 2010. Statistics for the last 8 years paid to single SSI recipients. More paid for couples, but breakdown not shown. There has not been a change as to who qualify for SSI benefits. There has not been a change in that those admitted as lawfully admitted for permanent residence (LAPR) and after 5 years qualify for SSI and Medicaid benefits based on immigration status, that is, those petitioned by their relatives to come to the United States. Even though the petitioner submitted an affidavit of support before the Immigration Office will approve their petition, after 5 year the petitioned apply for SSI and Medicaid. and they're approved! They get monthly check and unlimited healthcare benefits that go on for decades just by residing in the US and without paying a cent as in zero into social security. Effect since 1972... 194881@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#194468 Click on the website shown below which lists the monthly SSI payments made to noncitizens for the last 8 years. Amount is more for couples although not listed. Again these noncitizens did not pay a cent as in zero into social security. http://www.2spencers.com/social-security-blog/2010/01/29/how-much-is-social-se curity-paying-to-ssi-recipients-in-2010/... 194468@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#194114 I would like to direct your attention the following websites. http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/welfare/060106welfarereport.pdf http://www.doc.ks.gov/reentry/dp-manual/medicaid%20medicare%20index%20section%20final.pdf Due to limited space see next comment.... 194114@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#194115 Please pay attention in particular to Background Datas (3) Barring noncitizens from collecting welfare benefits they pledge on condition of entry. But federal government have not barred noncitizens from collecting monthly SSI payments and Medicaid even though they did not work a day in their lives in America.. These have got to stop. As noted on their report, after the waiting period, seniors (in most cases father and mother, although not on the report but a fact) living with their adult children who are lawyers, doctors, or others in a position to support them, qualified for monthly checks, after 5 years of residency in the US, that could last for decades....decades this is outrageous. Yet federal and public servants who paid into social security for decades and I in particular cannot collect even a penny because I am a retired federal employee.. Dut to limited space see next comment.... 194115@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#194116 We need to demand Congress to put the responsibility on the petitioner who petitioned their relatives to come to America to provide for their support however long they stay here. If they do not agree, they need to send their relatives back to their country of origin. We are not the only one's suffering, but future generations as well While Congress is denying Americans their retirement and medicaid, they seem to have endless help for noncitizens. America maybe land of the free, but that should not include free money and free health care for non citizens that lasts decades until they pass on. As reported on the attached website, these are funded by state and federal government. The same federal government that is prohibiting federal and public servants from collecting our old-age and survivors benefits. Due to limited space see next comment.... 194116@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#194117 So for all the negatives on this site what is your say, is this fair? Or are you going to join us in our fight to right what our government did to federal and public servants. Afterall, your children and their children may someday decide to work for the federal government or public service or even marry someone in this field. Do you think it would be fair that they be denied to receive what they pay into for decades while employed? . I am sure your health premiums have gone way up as in all of us, yet these noncitizens receive limitless health care services. Is this fair? Call your Senators, Representatives and the President to end these special treatments to noncitizens.... 194117@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#193345 Such a dunce. Apparently just another lazy government thug who now finds out they can't screw over the rest of us. Too bad there Stuart.... 193345@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#189572 I retired from the Library of Congress. Gov't employees do not sit around all dayand do nothing.People who have never worked for the railroads or U.S. gov't really don't know or understand that gov't employees DO work hard. I receive a gov't check,as well as Social Security, minus 40%. Pres. Reagan signed the bill into law as long as one continues to work for the US gov't, they can receive their full S.S. benefit, but are penilized 40% when they retire. Pres. Reagan felt that I was double dipping. The gov't took money from my pay when I worked in private companies and the railroads for S.S. and retirement. That money that I put in for belongs to me. The law Reagan signed is backwards. Why should you have to continue working way past standard retirement age to get your full S.S.? People that work in private industries are forced to retire. Why shouldn't the standards be the same for gov't workers-with no 40% penalty taken out,even though they put in for S.S. for years? Replies?... 189572@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#188911 Since GM is now GOV owned Shouldn't this be subject to WEP/GPO???? What's fair is fair...or should be.... 188911@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#187722 I need to go back and read more deeply, but one thing I did not see, and have not found, is why only certain states are involved in this and others are not? How can this be when it involves a federal entity. A friend in Seattle is not subjected to any penalties, though has a similar work history to me. I worked as a Medical Technologist, which required a year of unpaid internship, in California, and then as a teacher in same state, which also required unpaid student teaching. Where am I trying to "cheat the system"? I feel cheated. I won't even begin to talk about the crappy 403b choices, except to say that VALIC and others preyed on overstressed teachers. Carry on.... 187722@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#185965 Go ahead and sue then. See what it gets you. Why do you think it is "unconstitutional"? Where in the constitution does it say one group should be able to rip off the rest of us? That is what all you government pension types would be doing if not for the WEP. The idea is to keep you from gaining something you do not deserve. That is fair.... 185965@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#185241 I've never understood why a lawsuit wouldn't take care of this. It seems unconstitutional. CA now requires schools to give notice before hiring but I didn't learn that I wouldn't be getting my deceased husband's SS survivor benefits until a few years ago. Needless to say, I won't be retiring.... 185241@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#181131 I am ashamed of the American part of me. What kind of a country steals from its own people who worked hard all their lives? No matter where I travel I cannot answer this question. It is not about money, but about morality and doing the right and just thing.... 181131@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#181249 I'm ashamed of the entirety of you. The WEP is the right thing to do. It keeps those like you from stealing from social security. And that is absolutely the right and just thing. Perhaps you should just go back to where that other part of you came from. Then you could really have something to complain about when you see their system.... 181249@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#180509 Your wife's retirement won't have any effect on your social security.... 180509@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#180110 I can collect social security in three years. My wife will begin collecting her CALSTRS benefits in about 5 years. Will I still be able to collect all my social security benefits when she retires?... 180110@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#178293 You failed to tell eceryone about the favorable pension you have from working in public education. Don't expect others to feel sorry for you after they find out about that.... 178293@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#177666 As a single person and parent, I have worked 2 jobs most of my adult life and have paid into the Social Security System. After working 30 years in public education in Texas, I now work at a private school, continuing to pay into SS. (My husband was a Vietnam vet who became mentally ill after the war,divorced, left us with no child support, and died young.)It hardly seems fair that others who have never paid into the system can draw on their husband's SS regardless of their pensions, and my SS will be greatly reduced because I live in a state that penalizes state employees.... 177666@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#173881 That is exactly what you will get. Nothing more and nothing less. If you had bothered to read and understand the WEP perhaps you wouldn't be here whining about not getting more than you deserve. Of course that presupposes you have the ability to do those things, like read and understand.... 173881@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#173456 Ar you now the person who decides who can post here? I don't think so and I will post as I see fit. Thank you ever so much.... 173456@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#173831 If I had worked at GM, FORD, or any other factory I could get a company pension and SS for what I paid in. I worked at jobs for 22 years paying into SS and then went to work for the local goverment. I do recieve a pension from Public Emplyees Retiement. Why can't I get paid for what I paid to SS for 22 years? I'm not asking for anything more than what I paid for.... 173831@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#171697 A strangly negative blog. If you are happy with the way things are than stop typing. How about a compromise and giving me back the $48,000 I've contributed and I can buy some time from my state teacher retirement plan.... 171697@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#171255 The windfall provision must be eliminated so that I get get more money (seeing that the govr is giving it out indiscriminately).... 171255@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_484.html#170668 You apparently don't understand how the benefit is calculated. And as long as you fail to get that in your head nothing anyone says will overcome your silly little whine. The WEO is designed to make sure you receive what you should and nothing more. So sorry you can't scam the system for more.... 170668@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST