State Cuts Delay U.s. Benefits, Official Says

By ROBERT PEAR, New York Times
Sun, 04/12/2009 - 10:52pm

The Social Security commissioner said that “governors are hurting their own states, their own citizens” and increasing the backlog by furloughing workers who make disability decisions.

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