
This year the President's budget request for fiscal 2010, appropriations bills currently moving through both the Senate and the House of Representatives include $11.4 billion for administrative expenses at the Social Security Administration—this represents a $984 million increase over current funding. The funding increase will help reduce the backlog with social security disability cases and improving services to the public. A sustained level of administrative funding would enable the agency to 'build the infrastructure necessary to manage the significant workload challenges presented by serving the aging baby boomers filing disability and retirement claims,' stated the letter.
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