[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 179 (Thursday, December 10, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S8599]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO JULIO N. INFIESTA

 Mrs. GILLIBRAND. Mr. President, I wish to speak today in 
recognition of Mr. Julio N. Infiesta of Lynbrook, NY, who served in the 
Social Security Administration for 42 years in the New York region. I 
ask my colleagues to join me in thanking Mr. Infiesta for his years of 
dedication and public service and to congratulate him on his 
retirement.
  In 1973, Julio began his career with the Social Security 
Administration, serving in various local offices in the New York 
metropolitan region, including in the South Bronx, where he was an 
operations supervisor, and in Long Beach, where he was selected as 
branch manager. In 1976, he became a social insurance specialist in the 
New York regional office in field operations. Mr. Infiesta also served 
as assistant district manager and district manager in the Jamaica and 
Flushing offices until 2001, when he entered the agency's Advanced 
Leadership Program. Mr. Infiesta was promoted to the position of deputy 
assistant regional commissioner for management and operations support 
and also served as the acting assistant regional commissioner for 
management and operations support. As a member of the Senior Executive 
Service Candidate Development Program, he served as an area director 
and as the director for disability in the office of the deputy 
commissioner for operations. In 2003, Mr. Infiesta was selected as the 
region's assistant regional commissioner for management and operations 
support and was elevated to deputy regional commissioner in 2014.
  As Social Security's second senior ranking official in the New York 
metropolitan region, Mr. Infiesta oversaw Social Security operations in 
New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. These 
operations included an annual administrative budget of $400 million for 
more than 3,900 employees in 113 field offices, four teleservice 
centers, four Social Security Card Centers, the Northeastern Program 
Service Center, and the New York regional office. In the New York 
metropolitan region, Social Security pays $7.3 billion in monthly cash 
benefits to 6 million retirees, workers with disabilities and their 
families, and the families of workers who have died. Social Security 
pays an additional $461 million in monthly Supplemental Security Income 
cash benefits to 835,000 people aged 65 and older, as well as people 
who are blind or disabled, regardless of age.
  Mr. Infiesta and his wife, Joanne, are longtime residents of 
Lynbrook, in Nassau County, Long Island.
  Mr. President, I ask that we give tribute on December 10, 2015, to 
the 42 years of service that Mr. Julio N. Infiesta gave to the Social 
Security Administration and to the people of the United States.

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