20Feb
What is Social Security doing with the Economic Stimulus?
What is Social Security doing with its share of the economic stimulus? Building a huge data center, of course!
Using a hefty down payment from the newly signed economic stimulus law, the Social Security Administration has embarked on a $750 million project to replace its outmoded National Computer Center.
The agency received a total of $1 billion in the stimulus, with half to go toward the computer project and half for reducing a huge backlog in processing disability claims.
The injection of funds could result in hiring 5,000 to 6,000 workers in Baltimore and around the country, Michael J. Astrue, the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, said in an interview yesterday.
Read the entire article at The Baltimore Sun.com .
