For stimulus package, bureaucracy is taking time and money - washingtonpost.com
June 12, 2009
Spending $787 billion not only takes time, it turns out, it also costs money -- and that's good news for Washington.
To send out $14 billion in supplemental checks to most Social Security recipients, the federal economic stimulus package passed in February included $70 million to cover administrative costs -- much of it overtime for workers handling the checks and queries over the phone...
Spending $787 billion not only takes time, it turns out, it also costs money -- and that's good news for Washington.
To send out $14 billion in supplemental checks to most Social Security recipients, the federal economic stimulus package passed in February included $70 million to cover administrative costs -- much of it overtime for workers handling the checks and queries over the phone...
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