On Wednesday, Social Security’s new acting commissioner, Lee Dudek, acknowledged recent reporting about the number of people older than age 100 who may be receiving benefits from Social Security. “The reported data are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record. These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits.”
Braucilio de la Ossa, the deputy secretary of Carti, the port facing Gardi Sugdub, said that he planned to move with his wife, daughter, sister-in-law and mother-in-law. Some of his wife’s relatives will stay on the island.He said the biggest challenge for those moving would be the lifestyle change of moving from the sea inland even though the distance is relatively small.
“Now that they will be in the forest their way of living will be different,” he said.A man paddles near Gardi Sugdub Island where a cruise ship floats amid the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)A man paddles near Gardi Sugdub Island where a cruise ship floats amid the San Blas archipelago off Panama’s Caribbean coast, Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Juan Zamorano reported from Panama City.In what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in May.
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, leading to what is now one of the biggest retail sales and travel weekends of the year.Yael Schacher, director of the Americas and Europe at Refugees International, agreed that Musk is likely referring to the Shelter and Services Program and said there is “no substance” to his claim that money for disaster victims is being given to migrants, as each fund is appropriated separately by Congress.
“It is absolutely correct to say these funds would not have gone to disaster relief if they hadn’t gone to the SSP program,” she explained. “The funds just wouldn’t have been appropriated by Congress at all. The Shelter and Services Program is a separate line item in the federal budget and does not draw from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund.”She continued: “Congress has specifically set aside funding for FEMA to administer the Shelter and Services Program, ensuring that it does not pull any resources from FEMA’s other work.”
Congress has authorized 140 times more funding for the Disaster Relief Fund than the Shelter and Services Program,for the latter program have “strict cost requirements for how the money should be spent.”