Social Security News

      From the Washington Post : Kinsley Kilpatrick put on a convincing show. During visits to Atlanta VA Medical Center, the Iraq War vete...

        Lawrence Glickman writes about the long, long history of calling Social Security a "Ponzi scheme." Repeating this lie end...

       Did Musk receive some distorted information about dependent benefits? Yes, multiple people can receive benefits on one Social Securit...

      Elon Musk, who has been granted sweeping powers by President Trump, has been making extravagant claims about the existence of massive ...

     It won't surprise anyone familiar with the publication but the National Review has posted a piece calling for Social Security ...

     From Dean Baker writing for the Center for Economic and Policy Research : The paper owned by the man who got incredibly rich by avo...

     From a Washington Post editorial: ... Just three years ago, in July 2015, the Obama administration warned that the [Social Secur...

     From Dylan Matthews writing for Vox : Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts,” Sen. Rand Paul ...

     Dustin Pugel at KY Policy Blog has responded to the recent arguments from the Kentucky Disability Determination Service director abo...

     From WTVQ : A new report issued Tuesday shows an increase of staggering proportions in the number of Kentucky adults and childre...

     Roll Call is reporting that the White House budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018, which begins on October 1, 2017, will call for c...

      For what it's worth: Today, the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative will be hosting an all-day solutions conference.  ...

     From BloombergView : Before leaving office last year, former Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma introduced legislation wit...

     I can't find any sign that the news media are picking up the story of indictments for alleged Social Security disability fraud i...

     Dylan Scott at TPM gives a history of The 80-Year Conservative War On Social Security .

     Senator Rand Paul on disability : What I tell people is, if you look like me and you hop out of your truck, you shouldn’t be getti...

     This is the text of a letter sent by Senators Ron Wyden (Ore.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), ...

     From Dylan Scott writing at TPM : When House Republicans signaled last week that they would provoke a fight over Social Security...

      ABC ran a report Friday night on a man drawing Social Security disability benefits on account of blindness who was working without ...

     To clarify something I posted yesterday, I don't really think it's possible that the House of Representatives will end the Lu...