Committee we rely on is something called nancy which is the National Counselor for local portability and they have made a recommendation for the contract for the entity that will provide that particular service. That is an item that got a lot of press over the last few weeks and that is one of the items on the agenda. You probably guessed i will talk about that as much other than to say we have a recommendation and we will vote on that at the march meeting are there concerns this would go a foreign head quartered company ericson . These are some of the things that have been looked out by not just the fcc, but you probably know there are a number of eyes on this particular item. You know rest assured all of the protocols and input we would have to consider those things have been done and we will have the capacity ability to make a decision based on all of that that has been cleared. That part has been done and we will be able to make a clean decision in a couple weeks. And one last ques
Inaccurate information, even though you were going into the office. Correct. Thank you. Miss rivers, thank you for your testimony. I think every member of this committee offers an apology and certainly our commitment well work with the people in the agencies to try and create law create legislation that will prevent this from happening to another american. So, thank you again for your testimony. Youre dismissed. Thank you. Our next witness will be sean bruin. He joins us today from the Social Security administration where he serves as a Senior Adviser for audit in the office of budget finance quality. Mr. Bruin. Thank you chairman johnson, members of the committee. Thank you for inviting me to discuss steps to strengthen the integrity of federal payments. I am senior advicer to the Deputy Commissioner for budget finance quality and management at the Social Security administration. My remarks will focus on our collection of death informationits accuracy, and how we share it with other a
And its been a while since we didnt have any the irs is going to become increasingly dysfunctional in terms of its basic mission. And my concern is not what do we collect with our own efforts, my concern is at some point the voluntary Tax Compliance system begins to erode. And thats not an on off switch. And you cant wake up one day and say, wow, i didnt know that was going to happen, heres some more money. So part of the reason im so serious about this is that people need to understand the fiveyear implications and ramifications of where were headed. And as ive said in other contexts, i dont want anybody to say we didnt warn you. So you should treat this as your warning that this is a real problem, and its a serious problem, and were beyond the simplicity of saying well, well cut your budget and youll be more efficient. Or well make sure you know what youre doing, you know . Cut our budget again and i know what were going to do. Were going to have fewer people, well have technology th
That circumstance happen to them. Usually we learn of the occurrence by the individual reporting it directly to us. We advise the individual that we can correct that if they visit our office. As miss rivers identified. We request that an individual bring several proofs of identity with them, including state issued form of idsty, birth certificate if they have one so that we can correct the record. And when the individual leaves our office, we issue them a letter indicating there was an error and that its been corrected. The name may be removed from the death master file, but the effects continue to linger, correct . Can you describe what happens there with credit agencies and banks and Credit Card Companies . Sure. Well, the Social Security administration shares the public death master file as miss davis indicated. That does not include state data still around 84 million reports with the department of commerce. Commercial entities can procure that record, that database from the departm
The comment made earlier about how to that people come i you let every two vet people, you let everybody run command you take the top two vote getters. You can watch the remainder of this event online at www. Cspan. Org. Breaking news out of boston, a jury has reached a verdict in the federal Death Penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. The verdict is an mad is expected to be announced momentarily. Lawyers are gathering in court. We expect to hear comments from the lawyers later on and we will hear comments from you, your reaction to the verdict in just a bit on cspan. Meanwhile, we will take you over to the Brookings Institution in washington. It is one week until tax deadline day. There in your screen is John Koskinen. He will be talking about how his agency is dealing with budget cuts. They are just getting started. Commissioner koskinen half of the book is dedicated to tax codes. There is a quotation from the book that we pulled. It says, the power to tax is the