Word: ssa
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WASHINGTON, D.C.--Hale Champion, Harvard's financial vice president until his appointment last year as undersecretary of the department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW), will probably be the next commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), a congressional staffer close to HEW officials said yesterday...
Champion and Don I. Wortman, the current commissioner of the SSA, were unavailable for comment today...
...SSA is one of the most important divisions within HEW, with a staff of hundreds of thousands. The administration manages the Social Security Benefits Program, which distributes the monthly checks which are sent to cover 33 million people...
...Thus the SSA and Helen Michaels confronted an increasingly bewildering bureaucratic dilemma: How do Government agencies reconcile the Freedom of Information Act with the traditional laws protecting personal privacy? Last week Mrs. Michaels was back in court to demand that the SSA prove that her husband is alive. In reply, Government attorneys insisted that the SSA could not reveal any information about...
...urging of the judge, attorneys cited yet another law allowing a court to request information on a parent when support of minors is at issue. The SSA then produced a recently signed document in which Michaels said he departed because he was not getting along with his wife. "Apparently he wants to be left alone," says Mrs. Michaels' lawyer. Obviously, but Helen Michaels wants to find her husband-and demand separate support...