Welcome, everybody. Thanks for being here. This is a hearing for the Regulatory Affairs and subcommittee. Modernizing moving forward using Lessons Learned during the covid pandemic. We should have something good come out of the pandemic. This hearing is focused on what we can gain, whats already been learned, what gaps are still there and what to do to better improve the process. A decade was telework legislation and enhancement act of 2010 set the baseline standard for federal agencies to follow the telework. Over the last ten years, loosing advances in technology, expectations an increase in Cyber Security threats. So many changes in the world makes sense to take a close look at the current policies and strategies in the federal workplace. Its acting as a magnifying glass for improvement. In july with a panel of private industry witnesses during the hearing, we gathered valuable information concerning what private employers have done to support Remote Workforce and we are able to dra
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Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities. The status of Social Security today. Today we will hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner omalley. We are grateful you are here. Commissioner omalley was confirmed last year. And i dont think i have to remind anyone in this room or listening and how important this program called Social Security is. It will serve over 68 million americans this year. Without Social Security benefits experts estimate about four in 10 Older Americans will have incomes below the poverty line. That means 640,000 pennsylvanians are lifted out of poverty solely because of Social Security. Serves people with disabilities. In january of this year Social Security provided almost 12 billion disability benefits to 8. 5 million beneficiaries. Unfortunately, while our population has aged the demand for Social Security has increased support for Social Securi
Commissioner. The hearing is about two hours. Good morning everybody. Senate will come to order. The title of todays hearing is keeping our promise to older adults and people with disabilities. The status of Social Security today. Today we will hear from Social Security Administration Commissioner omalley. We are grateful you are here. Commissioner omalley was confirmed last year. And i dont think i have to remind anyone in this room or listening and how important this program called Social Security is. It will serve over 68 million americans this year. Without Social Security benefits experts estimate about four in 10 Older Americans will have incomes below the poverty line. That means 640,000 pennsylvanians are lifted out of poverty solely because of Social Security. Serves people with disabilities. In january of this year Social Security provided almost 12 billion disability benefits to 8. 5 million beneficiaries. Unfortunately, while our population has aged the demand for Social Se
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