Alessandra Malito has written a piece for Dow Jones that's supposed to be in response to a reader's question. After reading it, my response is "How much can one writer get so much wrong in one short column?"
Click on the link above to read the article for yourself and see how many errors you come up with. Click on the image below to see the problems I found -- beyond the article's pathetic description of disability determination.
I have in the past emailed writers that get things like this so wrong. On at least two occasions, out of about 20, I heard back and had a useful discussion about the claims or statements they included in their articles. Like anything else, there are some who care about what they do and will be happy to engage and correct errors but it seems most are just filling column inches and contributing to the glut of misinformation about Social Security, and many other topics as well, that bounces around the internet.
ReplyDelete2:43 pm - as a thought exercise, why not try yourself to put together some FAQs to see how easy it is. There will be some obvious easy ones that you can put together, but I bet you find some quickly become too long or too convoluted (used to be this way, used to be that way, now is this way). Because people will read them and because it's on the official website take them as gospel.
ReplyDeleteYou have obviously never read an OTR Brief from a rep!
ReplyDeleteSSDI aside, I found it interesting that there was no mention of health insurance. Many people who are self-employed and have their own business have health insurance through the business. Should the business close, it very well may be goodbye health insurance.
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