But the White House said that the automatic budget cuts would force the agency to "curtail service to the public," and that the backlog of Social Security disability claims would increase.
More than 20,000 refugees approved for resettlement in the United States remain stranded in desolate camps in Africa, Asia and the Middle East as officials here continue to struggle to reduce the backlog of required security clearances, State Department officials say.
For instance, if employers broke the contract, they were expected to reimburse the subsidies and pay the backlog of social security contributions.
Border Force staff could be redeployed to deal with a passport backlog of 30,000 applications, raising security fears, it has been reported.
Put more simply, developers typically have a long backlog of things to do and security testing often "falls between the cracks" because of limited time.
But there have been some notable exceptions — including murderers, rapists, and pedophiles who were accidentally granted access to classified information as a result of a massive U.S. government backlog in the issuing of security clearances.
Jeffrey Kassel New York, Dec. 10, 2007 To the Editor: Social Security can reduce the growing backlog of disability appeals by changing its quality assurance program.
Mr. McCormack said Mrs. Clinton's file was breached last summer during an exercise in which the department was training new workers to deal with a backlog of passport applications created by changes in national security procedures.
As in the case of the [Afghan security forces], DOD also has a substantial backlog of war-related procurement that remains to be spent.
Nakheel is one of the more exposed of Dubai's corporations, with a US$3.5bn issue of sukuk (Islamic fixed-income securities) falling due at the end of 2009 and a heavy backlog of payments owed to international contractors and consultants.
