soar stands for ssi, ssdi, outreach, access, and recovery. it's a project that started in 2005 when the federal government was holding policy academies to address homelessness across the country. and almost, probably at least half of the states that participated in those policy academies said that one of their goals was to try and increase access to ssi or ssdi, but no one knew how to do it. when people are living outside or in the shelter, one of the key things that they need are an income in order to be able to find their own home and live in their own home. and a lot of folks that we serve don't come in with an income, but have a significant disability that would make them eligible for social security. for the clients that i work with, because of the mental health or substance abuse issues that they have, it's difficult for them to access the benefits and sometimes they don't even know that they are eligible for benefits. so making them aware of that is a key point sometimes. social security is set up that the people who want these benefit

one recommendation is that seniors receiving ssi are living be -- below the poverty level. the federal poverty level is $10,890. because of the california ssi cash out policy, they are ineligible for cal fresh or food stamps. california should pursue any missed policy for those harmed by it. secondly, high rent burdens result in negative outcomes for people. some of may skip meals to avoid rent. they have a yearly income that is only 14% of the san francisco area median income. more affordable housing is essential and new affordable housing for seniors and people with disabilities should include individual or shared cooking facilities. since we have received no government funding for food programs, we do sit -- feel the increased demand for those things when other organizations have cutbacks. increasing food and transportation costs. in 2009, 2010, 134,000 meals over contract were provided. supervisor mar: thank you so much. i called a number of speakers. please keep coming forward. i will call a few more names. [read] names >> hello, in a disabled veteran and i would like

puerto rico doesn't have other safety net programs like ssi or meaningful cash assistance programs in the absence of other federal programs such as ssi, the cash portions of that benefit has assumed an important beyond nutritional assistance. it is not clear what the impact of moving to a pure ebt program would be to retailers, and retailers who are not certified or capable of accepting ebt cards, particularly small businesses and food markets in rural areas could be adversely affected. given puerto rico's incredibly high poverty and unemployment rate, the committee should proceed with caution before disrupting its largest safety net program. poverty and unemployment in puerto rico are very high. in 2010, puerto rico's official poverty rate was 45% versus 15% for the united states. the island unemployment rate may be 14.2%. the next highest was nevada at 11.6. these changes could increasingly increase trafficking, given that these are virtually no other forms of cash assistance on the island, moving to a food-only program could result in a more houseful trafficking than benefits to th

s, they used to be affordable on ssi. this is seen as bad if not worse. they have tragic consequences, for people in fro conditions. there are not standard in -- they will provide and install the bars at no cost, to the owner -- until the grab bars are mandatory, they can help. once this improves, this should not be difficult -- to add the needs for grab bars to a list of items. it will carry out the efforts to improve lives. [speaking spanish] >> i am margarita, and i am from a homeless family. >> i want the support. they deserve to have a living in which they have better conditions. [speaking spanish} >> get to that age -- not just forget about them. i just want to support it. >> thank you, so much. mr. wright? >> disinformation i am about to give you, there is nancy pelosi, state superior court, and the court of california. this is managed by the community housing partnership. why first move into that place, i signed the contract. with the corporation housing unit, you underlined the need. he moved into an apartment that was infested with mice. i paid

steny hoyer worke that fort yoime t oe d lkg t hand ssi and he sat down. he said your good kid, i love you and our will take care of you. that wasit. at e oth g, nhi eron b khe yoo a w give unnditional love like that, there was a big public announcement that the anniversary and dropped out a lkn hayte th. d r rne lye eputation. let's go to the peace corps. how could you do it? how do you want to make a difference? what do you want to do? wehacoon. ncouody ppmengre guo donon i le cretli thow tbe good father and balance fatherhood, ith and friendship is what the bk i t. egdao n hse aattetf baor tpuk toer and at the end, towards the end of the book, finishing up called andaii got idgrat. u dt a le bi whut o t your father. your father became a friend of mine. i felt he was tellinge to make a commitment to le an it t lim it te ore opeait fhe p better or a mother. helps them deal with balancing those acts. over it makes my father a few nefriends. a few a newri an v t >> every wke boov off nfis okg se wa itere on c-span2. >> on booktv's recent visit to h.ferson c

ssi was provided to create supplemental assistance.what has happened is to look with there is a number of law firms that specialize in getting you on ssi, i would have parents bring in their children to me and say adhd is severed's enough to be called a disability? during the first couple of years, you provide some must distance. it also swelled the roles. those who genuinely have disabilities and had severe problems, we understand them want to help. my concern is this to have a lot of people out there don't know where the congressman but they say they are disabled and are working under the table summer else. that is hurting those who generally have problems we do we should be able to join on both sides of the ilo. -- both sides of the aisle. >> one last call. caller: good morning. how can the congress and supreme court solve our problems and we are -- when they are the cause of them? you have small countries like cuba, they give the citizens and their country health care. no reason, congress and never help the american people. the pro

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in fact, my mother is on ssi. what would you say to the students who don't have wealthy parents who still save money for several years and take advantage of the opportunity. >> it ist' great, but who will pay the rent in manhattan? where do they get the money to pay? >> you have -- where do you get the money to pay your rent? >> i filmed for two years. >> earlier sandra was talking about how many people don't really realize the opportunities behind vocational school. do you think with the unemployment rate being so high and the deterioration of our economy, do you think a lot of people will be switching and maybe going l to vocational school more, or do you think that people will continue going to universities and colleges and paying off their student loans in years to come? >> i think some people who might have gone to college to get a bachelor's degree is saying instead of majoring in philosophy maybe i will major in nursing or instead of getting a ba in by yule gee i should become an engineer. this study shows

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i won't be able to collect ssi.n i take now won't be any good by the time i'm old enough to parole from here. technology changes every day. i have no idea what half the cars look like out there, let alone a computer. so it's going to be scary. >> on our return to valley state, we found life remains very much as it was on our first visit, five years earlier. while there may be new programs and increased funding in some areas, fundamental issues like

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. >> you legally cannot use social security or ssi or disability or veterans bills to pay debts, right they want to can do that but they're not under any legal obligation. those funds are expect. that's how it came to us. we did a survey across the state. we found at least a thirty of them in the state of illinois people were routinely ended up in these circumstances where essentially at the bottom of it because they were pooring they were landing in prison or jail and we set about to remedy that by looking at the rules and procedures that tyke place in courts. we found that quite frankly there were some counties where it was completely different than other counties. again, a real problem. >> we have a question for you. >> who's making these charges? >> for years you've heard of this. we had a lot of hospitals. we contended with there in illinois in the last five or six years where we change add law where before a hospital can turn your bill over to a debt collector there's a process they have to go through. now it's not just the hospitals and medical bills, but we see it with consumer

biggest farce is that kathleen sebelius has people signed up for food stamps, then got everyone on ssi, and in two years these people go on medicare, and obama is taking half of 1 trillion dollars out of medicare, and a middle-class tax paid, every time he gets on the microphone he tells a lie. this will be the biggest tax increase, and middle-class people will be paid in it. guest: tennessee had a reform that turned out to be fiscally unsustainable and they had to cut it back dramatically. it was a difficult experience. i think it was a lesson best at the federal level. you have to watch these massive expansions. if you look at how much medicare pays is about 70 cents on the dollar. medicaid, 56 cents on the dollar. if we keep using these programs to push down reimbursements, you run the risk that doctors will say i am not going to see those patients. we've seen people concerned, and that is part of the fact that we need to watch closely. host: douglas holtz-eakin, what about the massachusetts program? is it similar? is that something that might suffer the same fate? if guest: massach

arekibooran wekilsou social security we are talking about ssi, we are talking about other federal programs as well. and then we have to think about reve.verslyn s of taxes and fees. and they may be indirect effects, we may see revenue effects resulting from changes in workforce behavior and pructivity that we have to welllcanngtccount aswl caarthth you think would highlight the effects of policies or eventionatalre another issue that is important that with prevention is that we often get the question how o you square prevention. and prevention is actually a myriad of different types of policies and inteentis of you ha heardtd. we also think and g asked about euat it i ha, such as .08 blood alcohol, those types of regulations and we see more now and get aked questions now abt rsonal finanal centes tmodiis mathh ra premiums, maybe through cash contributions contributions that people receive a certificate and certain prevented interventions, and honetly, excise taxes on health risks. tas possy relednd so and so, three years ago, my colleagues at cbo decided it was time to start to look at the

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bthy,tetuhts ssi 1994 for the defense today. so, there's every means and i think every incentive to look carefully at the espionage act. cot.conyers,ou'r bslutey asse mthne sln what you do when you get open source intelligence i defend the constitution or about 25 years. the last 15i have been making a wrg y anoug s ev enanin remotely like this where suddenly you hve the access to information so you have to sit here and make sense of all of this and say the statute we looked at in the 94legiio soatatan te pot o as well. the last thing i would say is to be very careful about t institutions to in this because in the case of "the new york times" i will tell you personal experience they are abusing eir position. time and again what . sier d i gisttek mr. singer did in the operation is running at the white house. so, when you investigat which should i know those things are done wewaf trg peoplei let ankevr ue that there is accountability first and foremost. that is where this should be done very carefully. but more than that -- >> fi

we're talking about also about social security, talking about ssi, talking about other federal programs potentially as well. and then we have to think about revenues, and revenues may result directly in the case of taxes and fees or they may be indirect effects, if it improves we may see revenue effects resulting from changes in work force behavior and productivity that we have it take into account as well. finally, very important to us, i will make a big plea, is we are evidence and research nuts. we love good data. and so the strength of the evidence-base that enables us do the analysis is critical. we believe me, we really welcome anything you can share with us that you think would throw light on the effects of policy or interventions or responses that we can measure. so what we think about, another issue that is important is, we often get the question, how do you score prevention? and prevention is actually a myriad of different types of policy and intervention, as you have heard today. and we think about them in the broad care gories. they all raise different issues. they have very