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ernment’s largest cash welfare
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Social Security .Administration
is not doing enough to catch
the middlemen who are de
frauding a federal disability
program by coaching immi
grants to feign mental illness
and providing false medical
histories, say congressional in
vestigators and a senator.
According to the General Ac
counting Office, scams by mid
dlemen, who help non-English-
speaking immigrants obtain dis
ability benefits from Supplemen
tal Security Income, are draining
pp.^- mmmm m Mg agency,
were released Sunday by Re
publican Sen. Bill Cohen of
Maine, chairman of the Senate
Special Committee on Aging.
Cohen, whose oversight of the
SSI program also exposed wide
spread abuses by drug addicts
and alcoholics who collect cash
disability, said the explosion in
the number of immigrants apply
ing for SSI has created an atmos
phere ripe for fraud.
“Translators have become
wise to how easy it is to defraud
the system and are actively
seeking out immigrants as
clients,” Cohen said.
Yet Social Security, which
oversees the $22-billion-a-year
SSI program, “is simply not do
ing enough to weed out these
crooks, and it is costing the tax
payers millions of dollars every
year,” Cohen said.
The GAO reached a similar
conclusion, saying that while So
cial Security is planning several
initiatives to detect middleman
fraud, “more could be done.”
In her response to the GAO’s
findings. Social Security Com
missioner Shirley Chater said
the agency is working to identi
fy SSI recipients who got on the
rolls through fraudulent means.
Social Security is also hiring
more bilingual staff, and its ul
timate goal “is to dramatically
reduce reliance on middlemen
in developing claims of non-
English-speaking applicants,”
Chater said.
The number of legal immi
grants collecting SSI disability
has increased sixfold over the
past decade, from 45,000 in
1983 to 267,000 in 1993. By
comparison, the number of U.S.
citizens on the rolls grew less
than twofold, from 2.3 million to
4.2 million.
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MID
STERLING HEIGHTS
Mich. (AP) — In a Labor
weekend show of strength
some 3,000 striking Detroit
newspaper workers and sup
porters blockaded a printing
plant, delaying delivery trucks
for more than 12 hours
Union leaders claimed a eignif
icant victory Sunday in the bitter
strike that has dragged on for
more than seven weeks. Manage
ment condemned the protest and
rushed to deliver Sunday’s com
bined editions of The Detroit
News and Free Press.
“This has to be considered a
complete victory,” said A1 Derey,
chairman of the Metropolitan
Council of Newspaper Unions
After the number of pickets
dwindled to about 50 by about
8:30 a.m., police cleared a way
for more than 50 large delivery
trucks to pull out of the plant as
the remaining demonstrators
shouted angry slogans.
Trucks normally begin leav
ing the suburban plant by 8 p.m.
on Saturday.
“I feel great,” said striker
Robert Glaeser of Roseville, a
dispatcher at the plant for 12
years. “They didn’t have a
truck move from 5 p.m. to 9
a.m. Do you know how much it
cost them?
“Yeah, we did a good job.”
Frank Vega, president and
chief executive officer of De
troit Newspapers, character
ized the protest as “mob rule
and lawlessness.”
“We are outraged that the
unions have encouraged their
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cility,” Vega said.
Detroit Newspapers handles
business and printing operations
under a joint operating agree
ment for Knight-Ridder Inc.’s
Free Press and The Detroit
News, owned by the Gannett Co.
Inc. Before the strike, the two pa
pers published separately during
the week and a combined edition
on weekends; since the walkout,
a combined edition has been pub
lished all week.
The strike began July 13
when six unions representing
about 2,500 workers walked off
their jobs, mostly over wages
and work rules.
Union members had been
working without contracts
since their previous agree
ments were allowed to lapse on
July 2. The contracts had been
extended day to day since they
expired April 30.
During contract talks, man
agement sought significant cuts
in production and delivery work
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for newsroom employees largely
on the basis of merit.
Union members balked, say
ing it was time for them to get
paybacks after years of conces
sions made when the newspa
pers, now profitable, were losing
money in the early 1990s.
Management of Detroit
Newspapers issued a statement
Sunday apologizing to readers
and advertisers for the delay in
deliveries.
“We printed just over a million
copies,” Detroit Newspapers
spokeswoman Teresa Lucido said.
Average pre-strike circula
tion of the two newspapers’
combined Sunday edition was
1.1 million.
The newspapers’ joint strike
edition is being produced and
distributed by managers, about
1,100 replacement workers and
strikers who have crossed pick
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