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9 votes
Allow employees to get percentage of money saved during a relocation. If an employee chooses to move themself (via a rental moving van) and/or if an employee opts to stay with relatives instead of temporary housing at a new location or even if an employee shortens their temporary housing stay, allow them to earn a percentage of the money saved off of the original extimated cost of the move.
5 votes
There are times that federal employee go on a temporary detail duty, for a month or more, perhaps to their regional offices or central offices. Employees are housed in hotels, which results in high costs. Why doesn't the goverment own apartments or condos & house these same employees at reduced rates? When you consider what the lodging rates are, this could be a real cost savings.
8 votes
SSI or Supplemental Security Income is paid to disabled individuals. Each person is allowed to receive a maximum individual amount monthly & this amount is reduced if a couple (2 married SSI recipients) live in the same household. In 2011 each SSI individual recipient is allowed a max SSI payment of $674 per month, but a couple is only allowed $1,011 between them. Using this same logic, there should be a family maximum ...more »
SSI or Supplemental Security Income is paid to disabled individuals. Each person is allowed to receive a maximum individual amount monthly & this amount is reduced if a couple (2 married SSI recipients) live in the same household. In 2011 each SSI individual recipient is allowed a max SSI payment of $674 per month, but a couple is only allowed $1,011 between them. Using this same logic, there should be a family maximum for SSI Payments. There are cases where multiple children in a household, all on SSI, living in the same household & they each can receive the maximum SSI amount per child calculated at an individual SSI recipient rate. Just as a couple receives a reduced amount if they are living together, 2 or more SSI recipients in a household, regardless of whether they are married, or a parent & child, or 2 children, should also receive a reduced SSI amount based upon a maximum family limit.
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SSA currently does NOT charge for Social Security Number cards. We should begin to charge for all duplicate cards (excluding those related to name changes). The first original card should be free & we should then charge $10 or $20 for each subsequently issued card. This would encourage people to safe guard their cards, thus decreasing our workloads which would ultimately save money.
