Social Security News

By Mary Lazich July 10, 2009 9:15 a.m. Talk show host columnist, and author Neal Boortz has some intriguing thoughts about how the stimulus should have been handled.

The Obama administration withdrew the government's long-stalled effort Wednesday to pressure employers to fire suspected illegal immigrants while moving ahead with an equally controversial plan to require federal contractors to check employees' names against records that are supposed to screen out unauthorized workers.

A Cleveland woman recently found out she's been "working" at an Athens factory even though she was never really on the payroll.

Time was when a reporter looking for a private address would go into a library and spend hours poring over an electoral roll.

The Oshkosh Police Department and the Wisconsin Department of Justice are urging folks to be on guard against a recent phishing scam that has recently appeared in Wisconsin.

The Senate wants to force the Homeland Security Department to stick with a proposed Bush administration policy requiring employers to fire immigrant workers whose names don't match their Social Security numbers.

British journalists working for Murdoch papers have been on a crime spree, hiring private eyes to illegally hack into the voicemail and data of thousands of people, including " tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills"; Murdoch has paid out over 1M so far to hush it up.

TV Today's 6 News Idaho's U.S. Senators Back Immigration Fencing U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo were among Republicans who backed beefing up requirements for fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and requiring companies doing business with the federal government to verify they aren't employing illegals.

RUPERT MURDOCH'S News Group newspapers in Britain have paid out more than 1 million to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.

In the face of national savings rates that until recently were the lowest in years, U.S. Sen.

Breaking ranks with Demcratic leaders, Oregon senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley voted Wednesday to require the United States to build a fortified, 700-mile-long fence along the Southern border to slow illegal immigration.

Motorists who renew their Indiana driver's licenses or obtain new ones will have to present documents to prove their identities beginning next year.

Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, sued the U.S. government Wednesday over a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

In the Great Depression, many a destitute worker contemplated suicide, so what effect is the current recession likely to be having on death rates? To find out, David Stuckler at the University of Oxford and colleagues took mortality data on 26 European Union countries from 1970 to 2007.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice busted a Medicare fraud ring in Miami, indicting eight suspects who allegedly cheated the government out of $30 million.

Following is a sample from the Federal Way police log: a Obscene vandalism: At 2:56 p.m. June 27 in the 31900 block of 30th Avenue Southwest, it was reported that unknown suspects spray-painted racial slurs and images of male genitalia on a vehicle.

With 2009 nearly half over, the Internal Revenue Service reminds Rhode Islanders that there is no better time to check their 2009 federal income tax withholding levels to make sure they do not face any surprises when returns are due next spring.

Texas Rep. Ted Poe of Houston is calling for Congressional hearings on the FAA as a result of News 8's investigation of aircraft mechanics.

Workers nearing the end of their careers face complex issues in planning for retirement.

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter switched sides, becoming a Democrat in the wake of opposition from Republicans in the spring.