P-cards
The Boston Herald has carried out a terrific job investigating and bringing to the general public’s consideration the corruption that exists with our public officers. Howie Carr additionally does a terrific job exposing fraud and crime.
I wish to suggest an answer to the P card that our elected officers use and abuse. Why not carry it in step with what most personal sector companies do?
ELIMINATE THE PROCUREMENT CARD totally and substitute the next professional expense reimbursement processes.
All authorities workers that incur professional work associated bills maintain their receipts and submit them bi-weekly or month-to-month to their boss who will evaluation the receipt for APPROVAL or DISAPPROVAL, preliminary every receipt if professional and submit it to accounting for cost inside 7 days. The personal sector calls it accountability.
For individuals who are the boss, they’ll submit their receipts to the Division Accountant who will evaluation every receipt for APPROVAL or DISAPPROVAL, preliminary every receipt and submit it for cost. The personal sector once more calls this accountability.
These authorities workers who approve every submitted receipt by initializing authorized receipts put themselves on the firing line for abuses if uncovered. In any case, let’s not let abusive taxpayer fraud proceed.
Paul B. Ahern
Melrose
Equal COLA Act
I’m a retired federal worker writing to lift public consciousness concerning the Equal COLA Act, H.R. 491/ S. 624, which would offer extra equitable annual cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) for Social Safety beneficiaries, federal annuitants and veterans underneath the Federal Workers Retirement System (FERS). The laws would carry much-needed monetary aid to tens of millions of seniors throughout the nation.
Below the Equal COLA Act, FERS retirees would obtain full COLAs in step with the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and Social Safety beneficiary’s annual COLA changes, as a substitute of the present system which caps their changes. This unfairly leaves FERS retirees’ annuities susceptible to the impacts of inflation, and, in occasions of excessive inflation for retirees on fastened month-to-month incomes, can erode their monetary stability.
Passage of the Equal COLA Act would assure truthful remedy for federal retirees who’ve devoted their careers to public service, and would be sure that they, and their annuities, are valued accordingly. I urge our members of Congress and my fellow People to face up for the federal group and assist the Equal COLA Act.
Joseph Andrzejewski
Topsfield
Socialist pols
A crash is coming to the Huge Apple and we can’t avert our eyes. And we can’t blame alone youthful voters unschooled in twentieth century historical past, for a lot of of their dad and mom are as unaware of current collectivist calamities as their younger. And so are Democratic politicians like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, flocking to the socialist whippersnapper for a photo-op since he’s the one factor going since Donald Trump laid waste to the dream of a Biden follow-on with Harris-Walz. If Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo don’t tone their egos and current a unified entrance for opposition voters, Zohran Mamdani will go away solely the core of the apple.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati, Ohio
