Talk:United States Department of Health and Human Services
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A few things are unclear here:
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flatrockdam 04:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Why was herricks high school removed from the top. Its initials are also HHS.
I think that HHS needs a disambiguation page. there are too many other things with the initials HHS.
Please note, the U.S. Veterans Administration was never part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare. The U.S. Veterans Administration was an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States Government from 1930-1989; V.A. was elevated to cabinet-level status effective 1000 EST on 15 March 1989. The name was statutorily changed from the U.S. Veterans Administration to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Further, only in legal documents is "Veterans" denoted with an apostrophe (Veterans') when writing about the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or its predecessor, the U.S. Veterans Administration; otherwise, the "s'" should not be included. The establishment of the U.S. Veterans Administration in 1930 transferred and combined the functions of the Interior Department's Pension Bureau, certain U.S. Treasury Department functions with respect to veterans, and the independent Veterans' Bureau into one agency. The National Cemetery System was transferred to the V.A. in 1973 from the Department of the Army. It should be noted that several national cemeteries are maintained by the National Park Service (an agency of the Department of The Interior) and Arlington National Cemetery is under the Army's jurisdiction. Overseas cemeteries are under the jurisdiction of the American Battle Monuments Commission, an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States Government. I believe national cemeteries at Manila and the punch bowl at Hawaii are jointly maintained by V.A. and ABMC. The G.I. Bill has for the most part always been under V.A.'s jurisdiction (specifically in the VA's Veterans Benefits Administration and the Department of Veterans Benefits in the Veterans Administration) since 1944- the Small Business Administration and some other agencies oversee minor statutory portions of veterans benefits.
The Social Security Administration was formerly the Social Security Board, then was placed under the Federal Security Agency. After HEW came along, FSA was "dropped" and it became the Social Security Board and then, the Social Security Administration. Then SSA was separated from HHS. Today, there is a Social Security Board that oversees the SSA (an independent agency of the USG); the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Social Security are presidential appointees subject to Senate confirmation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.102.4.61 (talk) 19:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Why bother having an article on an agency with a 2008 budget of $697 billion without even mentioning that fact?
http://www.hhs.gov/budget/docbudgetarchive.htm#FY08 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.172.73.26 (talk) 20:27, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
