This is some of my typed journaling I did when I lived in Hawaii. 
Believe it or not, this was a letter I sent to Social Security. 
There have been several times I was to be awarded a hearing and 
the hearings were never scheduled. Where is the justice?
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2000 

Department of Health and Human Services

Social Security Administration

Office of Hearings and Appeals

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I may and may not come back to this journaling. Instead I will add what
happened on January 5, 2009.


My husband, Alfred, and I went to Congressman Poe’s office in December 
because of more discrepancies in my social security records. I received 
a letter dated December 1, 2008 stating I owed more money than the letter 
of August 2007 where the processing center had made corrections. The letter 
stated they were going to stop my retirement checks beginning Dec. 8, 2008 
and start them again in October 2010 and that I had a right to appeal. 

We had spent several days working on an appeal before an administrative law
judge and at the same time I had spent the same time addressing paragraph by
paragraog the letters from the disability processing center. We sent that
via certified returned mail directly to the processing center. The processing
center had then made corrections and stated that I had several years of many
unsuccessful attempts at work. 

within a week of the letter dated December 1, 2008, I received a statement
that social security was going to deposit my funds on January 2, 2009 so we 
decided to take my records to Congressman Poe’s office. There were too many
discrepancies in my records. What was deposited in December was not was was
supposed to be deposited so I wondered if my Medicare premium was paid. 

Okay, the gal at Congressman Poe's office was supposed to get Congressman Poe
to file on this for me. We had taken several documents with us which she, Angela,
had made copies of. Instead of getting things corrected, this gal called the 
regional social security office in Dallas. She did NOT get back with me. I called 
her today and she said she called them and was told to tell me to contact the 
local office. I reminded her that the local office is where my records got 
screwed up in the first place; the local office is who lost my records to begin 
with. We had told her that when we went to Congressman Poe's office in the first
place. We had been to Congressman Poe's office for social security issues before
and brought documents to prove the errors that occured at the Port Arthur Social
Security office. 

I told her I wanted a letter from Congressman’s Poe’s office telling me what she 
had just told me. She said she couldn’t do that. I told her that I have been to 
his office before and I have always received letters informing me of the actions 
taken and of my visits to his office. She said she will check into that. Alfred 
is witness to that conversation. This is all so asinine. I called the office in 
Dallas which I have done before in relation to Medicare issues. I was transferred 
to a voice mail and my call was not returned today. So we decided to go to the 
local office Social Security office.  

This is what transpired there. We arrived sometime around 1530 hours.

Soc Sec today January 5, 2008:

We went to the Soc Sec office and you would not believe how we were treated. The gal 
(we later learned was Mrs. Tucker) said I never kept my appt in 2006. Alfred and I 
both told her we did but she was not there. Not only did we keep that appt but we have
been to the Social Security office several times since then. She said a judge ruled 
against me. I told her, what judge? I have never had a hearing and there was no judge. 
Her feathers got ruffled, she got up and went to get some papers, came back and then 
we started filling out some papers. I had to sign that I owe more than what is on the 
letter of 2007 which was a correction from the processing center or I would not have 
my funds started again. That is black mail by our government. And too it forced me to 
purger myself. Thank God Alfred was with me to witness all of this. I told Alfred just 
think about the people who don’t have a witness or the education to fight the system. 
Think about the people who don’t save their paperwork. She asked if I have proof and 
Alfred said, “Wait a minute.” And he went to the van and brought back papers. She said 
there wasn’t going to be anybody to listen to me today. Anyway, a hearing is supposed 
to be scheduled. She said it could take 4 to 6 months. In the meantime they will take 
out only $10 a month.

Every year they have had in the lower left corner, paid for the year before and the year 
before that hundreds or thousands of dollars but they sent that to the recovery center. 
In other words they have habitually underpaid me but instead they have been sending it 
to the recovery center instead of giving it to me. I have a right by Federal Law to appeal 
and to have a hearing. 

Well the local office lost my files. She said that was because of hurricane Rita. I said no 
that was before hurricane Rita. They lost my files that were sent to them in December 2004. 
Hurricane Rita occurred in September 2005. 

I am so tired and disgusted it is pathetic. I told her in 4 to 6 months I may not be living 
here. She said to keep them posted as to my address. I said I have always given my new 
address when I have moved and I have moved a lot. What she doesn't know is one time I made
the Social Security person sign a piece of paper giving the date and time I was there.

I asked Mrs. Tucker for the piece of paper that was generated when we first got there. I 
told her I wanted it as proof that I was there. She said they use them again. She put it in 
the trash can. I have one from another visit. They don’t reuse them. She didn’t want me to 
have it.

We were so glad that Mrs. Tucker was the one we saw at the window today because she is the 
one we were scheduled with a meeting in 2006. She didn’t show but we did and nobody took 
her place and nobody called to cancel or reschedule either.

And the saga continues….GeSh…….now we have to get our case together for this hearing……….
however, after we get a few things cleaned up around here I told Alfred we need to just go 
ahead and file for a hearing with an administrative law judge like the attorney in Austin 
said to do. The reason we didn’t go ahead even though we had the papers filled out was 
because the processing center ruled in my favor. But now this…..

Oh, I called Congressman Poe’s office and was told to contact the local office. Angela said 
she called the regional office in Dallas and that is what she was told to tell me to do. So 
I called and told her how the local office treated us today. I had already told her that the 
local office has never helped me. I went directly to the processing center to get done what 
I have succeeded in getting done. The processing center ruled in my favor stating that I had 
several unsuccessful attempts at work and that I didn’t owe all that they were originally 
claiming that I owed. That is the letter of 2007. Yet today I had to sign that I owe more 
as of a letter dated December 1, 2008. Is that a democracy, a republic or a dictatorship? 
I call it blackmail. Unbelievable……….can you imagine how many other people this is happening
to? The gal who made our Christmas angel said it happened to her but she just went ahead 
and paid it because it wasn’t a lot of money. Thelma Van Cleave…it happened to her too but 
she went ahead and paid it too. It wasn’t as much money either. And there was a gal at the 
Social Security office in Hawaii who was claiming her funds were going on the wrong Social
Security number. The Social Security office wanted proof going back 20 years, not 5 years, 
not 10 years, but 20 years of financial records. They were not hush, hush in their 
conversation with this lady. 

Oh, and when I called Congressman Poe’s office back to let Angela know how we were treated 
at the local office she said to let them know when they can help again. I told her I didn’t 
see where they have helped at all so far. I asked if Congressman Poe ever actually sees any 
of this information, does any of it actually go before his eyes. She said yes. I said well 
be sure what I am telling you today makes it to his desk and he actually reads it please.