Social Security News

      The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has cleared Social Security's proposed final rules on the recognition of law firms repr...

      From a press release : The Social Security Administration (SSA) plans to raise the fee cap for claimants’ representatives, from $7,20...

      The National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) is reporting that there will soon be an increase in t...

      The Social Security Administration has asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve two sets of proposed regulations.   ...

      A Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) from today's Federal Register: We propose to revise our regulations to enable us to direc...

      Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on payments to attorneys and others for representing clai...

      The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is a federal advisory body that makes recommendations for federal agencies, ...

      Social Security FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] Reading Room routinely posts "Proactive Disclosures." Usually, it's j...

      Social Security has posted final numbers showing total fees paid to attorneys and others for representing claimants in 2022. Let'...

    From the Messenger Inquirer : Will Craig retired from the Social Security Administration in December after 25 years. He said he’s seen t...

    From Bloomberg : An attorney who won disability insurance benefits for his client isn’t entitled to the fees the Social Security Admini...

      From the Social Security Administration : We previously announced an upcoming increase to the maximum fee under the fee agreement pro...

    I just received a $436.88 attorney fee in a case that was approved in November 2015. The fee had been miscomputed originally. We notifie...

      The full House Appropriations Committee has approved its version of the appropriations bill covering the Social Security Administratio...

      The Social Security Administration is today publishing in the Federal Register the increase in the fee cap under the fee agreement pr...

      On May 11, the Acting Commissioner of Social Security spoke to a Continuing Legal Education conference sponsored by the National Organ...

      A press release : Today, the Social Security Administration released its first Equity Action Plan, supporting President Biden’s whole...

     There have been rumors that an increase in the cap on fees that attorneys can charge for representing Social Security claimants is com...

      I had written recently about Social Security's inability to react to an adverse ruling by a court at anything other than a glacial...

     From The Legal Intelligencer (registration required): A limit on the fees attorneys may collect on Social Security cases has remaine...