Send an email message to your Senators and Congressperson.
Dear ,
The Senate and the House Appropriations Committees have approved significant cuts to the President’s proposed FY 2007 Social Security Administration budget. SSA Commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart has advised that these cuts would prevent the agency from completing critical workloads and would force SSA to close its doors for two weeks next year. The equivalent of 6,000 positions would have to be eliminated. Overtime, which SSA depends upon to process workloads due to excessive staff losses, will be severely diminished.
Basic services for the elderly and infirm will be denied as Congress prevents the agency from spending its own FICA-financed funds. Instead, this money is being used to pay for tax cuts for the rich, no-bid Halliburton contracts, and the war in Iraq.
I urge you to contact the Senate and House appropriators and fully fund the Social Security Administration.
Please advise me what actions you will take to ensure that Social Security will continue to provide services to the elderly, infirm and others who depend upon monthly SSA and SSI checks.
Sincerely,