September 10, 2014
Legal/Political Business
Pick an administrative agency of either the federal or a state government. Find where the current and proposed regulation changes for that agency are located on the Internet (i.e., the Federal Register or the State Administrative Agency website.) Regulations.gov is a good place to begin your research. Pick one proposed regulation change currently under consideration (if you find one that has already closed out but interests you, you can use that instead) and write the following regarding it:
1. State the administrative agency that controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you, or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers, and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points)
Administrative agency: The Social Security Administration and the proposed regulation is “Amendments to Regulations Regarding Withdrawal of Applications and Voluntary Suspension of Benefits”.
I chose this agency and proposed regulation because I have two children who receive SSI, and eventually we all will deal with how to handle these types of benefits. Many people currently collect such as the elderly, and disabled. Personally it can affect the children’s benefits.
This rule is interesting in that they can limit the time periods for applying and a loss of rights.
2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points)
Without this regulation, workers have the right to choose when they wish to apply for benefits as long as they have reached the legal age for application. This