From Social Security. As always, click on the image to view full size.
Dec 8, 2025
Disparities In Disability Determination
Social Security has posted numbers on initial allowance rates by state and region on disability claims for the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2025. As always, click on the image to view full size. Note the disparities between and within regions. You were much better off filing a disability claim in the Kansas City region than the San Francisco region.
Dec 7, 2025
Dec 6, 2025
Dec 5, 2025
Man Charged With Threatening To Blow Up Field Office
From WWNY TV:
A Watertown [NY] man is accused of threatening to blow up a government office in the city.
City police charged 32-year-old Edmanuel Rivero-Vazquez with making a threat of mass harm.
During a meeting with staff at the Social Security Administration office on Bellew Avenue on Wednesday, Rivero-Vazquez allegedly threatened to blow up the building. ...
Dec 4, 2025
Eye Rolling Comments From Trump
Donald Trump is saying that he likes the idea of Australia’s defined contribution retirement program instead of U.S.’s defined benefits plan. Defined contribution means you have no guaranteed retirement income. Maybe you get more than a defined benefits plan. Maybe not. The risk is yours. Also, how does a defined contribution handle disability and survivor benefits? Maybe those contingencies never happen in Trumpworld. Oh, and there’s also the little problem of how we would transition from what we have now to a defined contribution plan, a problem that has no conceivable solution.
Talking about the U.S. switching to a defined contribution plan is a sure sign that you know virtually nothing about Social Security.
At least I’m talking about eye rolling comments from the President rather than the problem he has keeping his eyes open.
Let’s End Junk Science At Social Security
David Weaver, a former Social Security official, has written a piece for LinkedIn echoing something I had written about recently, the need for Social Security to start using the updated occupational data it has collected in making disability determinations. I thought that Social Security had not released the data. Weaver says they have released the actual data. They just haven’t released a front end for the data, making it useless as is. However, Weaver says that third party vendors have developed front ends making the data usable. Social Security may want to suppress this data but I don’t think this will be possible. The Courts don’t like “junk science.” Is there any “science” more junky than the Dictionary of Occupational Titles?
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