Administrative responsibility
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Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), provided welfare participants with a potentially potent tool for challenging the government welfare bureaucracy by requiring pre-termination hearings before welfare benefits were discontinued or reduced. In 1996, with the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the rights talk of Kelly was officially replaced with the discourse of individual responsibility. Using observational data of administrative hearings and interviews with administrative law judges and appellants, this study explores how fair hearings have been affected by this official reconceptualization of rights. I find that hearings are not a panacea for challenging the more punitive aspects of we...
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Delegation, "Double Delegation," and Privatization Public participation has long been a central preoccupation of administrative law, a context in which government-run administrative agencies exercise important policymaking responsibility without a direct democratic check by legislatures.4 Indeed, the "delegation problem" in administrative law theory arises specifically from the concern that legislatures may weaken public participation when they confer authority on administrative agencies.5 Accordingly, much of domestic administrative law is concerned with increasing public awareness, participation, and oversight through statutes and doctrines such as the Freedom of Information Act,6 the Federal Advisory Committee Act,7 inspector-general review,8 whistleblower protection statutes,9 ci...
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financial responsibility suspension Ohio Administrative Code lack of jurisdiction
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On May 17, Jean Bohinski, GPS/CAP, a senior administrative associate with Prudential, will take the role one step further when she is sworn in as International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) Pennsylvania Division President for 2008/2009, and joins the crusade to work in partnership with employers to "promote professional excellence and to enhance their individual and collective value, image,competence, and influence." In today's business economy, the role of the administrative professional has evolved from strictly clerical tasks to include responsibilities such as purchasing equipment, planning special events, creating and delivering presentations, maintaining multiple schedules and calendars, and handling messages and correspondence via phone, e-mail and mail.
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This final rule removes regulations on the Black Lung program from the Social Security Administration's (SSA) chapter of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The Black Lung Consolidation of Administrative Responsibility Act transferred the responsibility for administering Part B of the Black Lung benefits program from SSA to the Department of Labor (DOL), and we are removing the regulations in recognition of the fact that we are no longer responsible for administering any aspect of the Part B Black Lung program. DOL concurs with this final rule removing the regulations.
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