SSDI Locked Down for 3 Years!! YIKES!

Part of the historic budget deal is a clause that is causing a collective shudder throughout the genealogical research community.  Here's a link to a Newsweek article that lays out the details.  Call you Congressman!!  The article points out very clearly that the new regulation will not prevent or curtail fraud.  But rather, it seems the new regulation will allow more fraud.  I'm not a computer programmer, but it seems logical that if the government is worried (or BEGINS to worry) that they're sending billions of dollars in refunds to the dead, that they should be able to electronically cross-reference the Social Security numbers of the claimant with their own SSDI!  Makes sense to me!  What do you think??

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Was this shot taken in 1936 or yesterday??

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300"] A scene from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)'s early accounting operations in Baltimore circa 1936. The issuing of Social Security numbers and the creation of earnings records on all Americans covered by Social Security was the largest bookkeeping operation in the history of the world. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption]

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