While SNAP (ie Food Stamp) benefits are currently protected for Americans who start to receive Social Security retirement or disability checks, this only applies if the SNAP applicant already has some income to report...and people who are totally without an income but dependent on food stamps routinely get their benefits slashed, when they are finally awarded SS help. This is insane, it penalizes the poorest of our elderly & disabled. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are effected..why? Michelle Obama, one of America's strongest 'feed the poor' advocates is uniquely situated to influence the Department of Agriculture's policy that abuses Americans for being poor, let her know what you think.

Whereas, on December 12, 2007, Senate Bill 915, PN 1436 was signed into law as Act 66 of 2007. The goals of the (Act 66) legislation are to enhance service delivery to veterans, increase the number of Pennsylvania veteran claims for service-related disability or pensions filed with the VA, develop methods to increase rates of recovery paid by the VA to Pennsylvania veterans, expand training opportunities for designated Veteran Service Officers, and increase either the number or percentage of Philadelphia veterans enrolled in the VA health care system, and Whereas, there are approximately 88,855 U.S. Armed Forces Veterans living in the County/City of Philadelphia, and Whereas, there is no Director of Veterans Office in the County/City of Philadelphia, and Whereas, on September 11, 2012, the Philadelphia City Council's Committee on Public Safety and Committee on Housing Neighborhood Development and the Homeless held joint hearings on the City’s preparedness for the influx of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and Whereas, Pointman Soldiers Heart Ministry, declared a “ State of Emergency” for veterans in Philadelphia during the 911 hearing because there is no Director of Veterans Affairs Office, and Therefore, this petition is to demands Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Council President, Darrell L Clarke to establish a Director of Veterans Affairs Office in the County/City of Philadelphia, forthwith, to increase rates of recovery paid by the VA to Pennsylvania veterans, expand training opportunities for designated Veteran Service Officers, and increase either the number or percentage of Philadelphia veterans and spouses receiving their earned benefits and preferences.

It is unfair to people who have paid into social security, and then are penalized while others aren't. Please vote for H.B. 1795

Recreational Marijuana tax revenues (HB1318) should include $10 million appropriation to create permanent protective therapeutic housing for people disabled by traumatic brain injuries by recycling TOWERS building of CU Med Hospital at Ninth and Colo. Blvd., Denver, then VA hospital at 1055 Clermont, and other empty buildings like Rosedale Elementary, Denver, and Baker Elementary, Wheat Ridge.

Senior Citizens are being forced to live on the street because of their non-violent backgrounds records. The HUD agents are denying senior citizens to be enrolled into the Federal Government senior cotozens low income housing program because of their non-violent records that are 10,20,30,40,50, years old.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in North Carolina and want to keep it the way it is.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in South Carolina and want to keep it the way it is.

Public workers , teachers anyone collecting a state pension having prior work in a job where social security was collected is being unfairly discriminated against by the federal government. Since 1985 when the government enacted this rule for social security receipients millions of people have had their social security payment eliminated or drastically reduced. We are asking congress to eliminate the WEP and allow those who have earned a social security benefit to collect what they have earned.

The Congress keeps abusing the funds and disrespecting the retired people that made the fund solvent. .Fi.c.a.. is a payroll tax paid in equal parts by the employee and employer for every hour worked. It is not an entitlement it's a non-negotiable earned benefit.

Let's stop wasting time on debating and legislating different CostOfLivingAdjustments for so many things. This big debate on fiddling with the Social Security COLA is a perfect example.

Welfare recipients attest under penalty of perjury that they are separate households from anyone else with whom they reside. This means that all income earned by others is excluded from determination of eligibility. Often, parents or others close to the applicant provide rent reciepts and attest to preparing food separately. Yet, many of these family members claim the welfare recipients as dependents on their income tax return, obtaining tax credits and reduced tax liabilty. Though illegal, there is no current audit program, and the welfare records are protected under privacy laws. Your representative in Congress should be alerted to the need for a task force to investigate this type of fraud and to put a program in place that will prevent its continuance. Additionally, all individual taxpayers should be granted access to welfare records when cases in which they may be implicated are brought to the attention of the taxing authorities.

The Maine legislature has denied Cost Of Living Adjustment to state retirees. COLA had been in effect for over 30 years. All of us elderly retirees have been grievously hurt by this reduction in calculated retirement while dealing with increased taxes and living expenses.