Speech #1090155010

I rise to commend the Macomb County Clerks office and the Mt. Clemens Regional Social Security office for an innovative new partnership which is expected to improve customer service. reduce unnecessary administrative work. and save Social Security over $257.000 over the next 5 years alone. As you know. the Immigration Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act required the Social Security Administration to verify all birth records before issuing Social Security cards. In most offices. that means Social Security staff have to go in person to the county clerks office with stacks of birth records. which the clerks staff then manually verify. The process is timeconsuming and laborintensive for both offices. and sometimes results in unnecessary delays for people waiting for new or replacement Social Security cards.