As fiscal-cliff negotiations heated up, the White House signaled it wouldn't give ground on Social Security because, as press secretary Jay Carney said, it "is not currently a driver of the deficit. That's an economic fact." Well, to paraphrase formerAlthough it has been artfully re-branded as “the problem of entitlements”—a change that couples it with spiraling Medicare costs and implies that the “entitled” get something they want, but do not deserve—the basic idea that Social Security is inA 49-year-old employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been arrested and charged with accessing child pornography at work, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Thomas Joseph Barrett, of Lynnwood, was arrested at the SSA's OfficialMillions of Americans still receiving paper checks for Social Security and other federal benefits have less than two months to switch to electronic payments.Obama hasn't nominated a successor yet to lead cash-strapped agency.
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