Social Security News

      Senator Ron Wyden, the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Robert Casey, the Chair of the Senate Special Committee on Aging...

      The National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE), an organization of the personnel who make initial and reconsideration determi...

     From Social Security's new mental impairment Listings for children: 112.04 Depressive, bipolar and related disorders (see 11...

      The parents of four year old Maziah Mills-Sorrells have been trying to get Supplemental Security Income disability benefits for he...

     The Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has recently completed a report on Households with Multipl...

     Dr. James Perrin, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, was on the Here and Now radio program talking about the Institu...

     The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released a 394 page report on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for children with mental disord...

     A recent Orange Is The New Black episode featured a misleading segment touching on Supplemental Security Income for children . I&#...

     Social Security is adopting revised Listings used in determining disability in children for growth disorders and weight loss. This i...

     The newsletter of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR), which is not available online, re...

     Patricia Wen at the Boston Globe has written a new piece on children's disability benefits under Supplemental Security Income. Th...

     Michael Hiltzik takes on a conservative who tries to prove that paying Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits to ch...

     A mother writes about the difficulty she's had dealing with a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) overpayment to her son.

    The Republican-controlled House Budget Committee has issued The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later , which is, of course, critical of feder...

     Last June, the American Psychiatric Association issued the 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D...

     The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) child's benefit program. Despite what you'...

     Three professors have produced a paper for the Heller School for Social Policy and Management of Brandeis University documenting the ...

     The new 5th Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) , the "Bible" of psychiatry, is out...

     Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times wrote a column in December attacking Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for children....