Staff testified about the ssi disability program. And the process for filing disability claims. Sam johnson chairs the ways and means subcommittee on Social Security. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning to all of you. And welcome to todays hearing. On the challenges Social Security faces when deciding if a person should receive disability benefits. Since i have been chairman, we have held 18 hearings including today on the Disability Insurance program. On one topic or another. Now thats a lot of hearings. But the Disability Insurance program is too important for Social Security not to get it right. Americans pay taxes on their hard earned wages for the promise of future Social Security benefits. When the worker retires, and is unable to work unable to disability or dies. These benefits are an important part of a familys financial security. And americans rightfully expect that when they apply for benefits, if they are eligible, that they will receive them quickly. But for those
Commission talks about the role of money and etices in Political Campaign campaigns. The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion today on Disability Insurance and proposed changes to the program. Among the speakers was tom cotton of arkansas. This is an hour and ten minutes. [ applause ] thank you, john. And let me add my welcome this afternoon to the Heritage Foundation. Social securitys Disability Insurance program was established in the 1950s. Like much of our federal governments social safety net, the Disability Insurance program was founded with noble intentions, to ensure that americans who could not work because of mental or physical impairment would not suffer from poverty or destitution. However, over its nearly 60 years of existence, the Disability Insurance program has morphed from a small scale antipoverty program, provided benefits to less than one half of 1 of our population, to a program that now provides not only Disability Insurance but also unemployment and early reti
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And after the courts decision. That is coming up next on t weimar cases on cspan, cspan3, and cspan radio. For more background, order your copy of the landmark cases companion book. It is available for a dollars . 95 plus shipping at cspan. Org landmark cases. Here on cspan live at the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. Or a discussion with our consent arkansas republican senator tom cotton on disability benefits. Joining us on the cspan network, we remind our internet and Television Viewers that questions and comments can be sent to us at any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. We will post the program on the heritage homepage for future reference. Inhouse, we do appreciate the courtesy of cell phones being silenced as we prepare to begin. Hosting our program and introducing our special guest is ambassador terry miller. Our fellow and Economic Freedom and director of the center for Data Analysis and trade and economics. He directs all of our Ongoing Research in the role o
The u. K. Perspective on this. I also wanted to talk about the role on ideology. Aremany people, when you thinking about Early Intervention, the first thing that comes to mind is, you need to take on immediately the ideas , that political radicals would have felt. Have you found that to be the case in your experience when we are talking about islamic radicals . Deepes this result from person issues or deep societal issues . I think in my experience is, all you have is individual pathways are different. Some buy into a narrative. Verylook at the world as similar to what was old school. Now, you have the evil capitalist west which is hegemonic late dominating the world. It is a suppressing the natural aspirations of most people in the world. Instance, the west is islam. They look at everything in the world through that. They look at israel and palestine through the ideological mindset. They look at any conflict through a manifestation of another attempt of america to dominate the middle