Social Security News

     Social Security is adding some new conditions to its compassionate allowance list of conditions that are supposed to result in having...

From: ^Commissioner Broadcast Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 10:38 AM Subject: Ten Years of Compassionate Allowances! A Mess...

     Social Security has added the following new medical conditions to its Compassionate Allowance list :   Fibrolamellar Cancer Megacy...

     There's a Congressional hearing tomorrow on the enormous backlog of Social Security disability claims awaiting adjudication. Th...

     The summary of a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General : Although 25 percent of allowed claimants i...

     Social Security has made 25 additions to its "compassionate allowance" list. Why is it that additions to this list always co...

     The Associated Press has just put out a story saying that Social Security has expanded its compassionate allowance program to allow m...

     In addition to partially duplicating and to some extent contradicting Social Security's Listing of Impairments, the additions to th...

     Social Security has sent out a press release announcing that 52 conditions have been added to the agency's Compassionate Allowance...

Social Security has issued a press release touting the addition of the following to its Compassionate Allowance list: Malignant Multiple Sc...

     A press release from Social Security: Diane Braunstein, now the Associate Commissioner for International Programs, received the 201...

From the Washington Post : Diane Braunstein’s large smile and warm laugh can be infectious. She speaks calmly as she sits in ...

A press release from Social Security: Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced 12 additional Compassionate All...

The Commissioner of Social Security held a public hearing on compassionate allowances in autoimmune disorder cases on March 16. Just last w...

A press release from Social Security: Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today hosted at the University of Maryland, Ba...

From today's Federal Register : We are revising our rules on a temporary basis to permit State agency disability examiners to make full...

How many Social Security Commissioners have thought that one key to solving Social Security's disability backlog is finding ways to spee...

Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue received an award from the Alzheimer's Association for adding Alzheimer's to the list of...

From The Daily Tribune of Oakland County, Michigan: People with early-onset Alzheimer's disease or any of 37 other diseases now are el...

A recent issuance in Social Security's Program Operations Manual Series (POMS) gives some details on processing of compassionate allowa...