Social Security News

    From Effects Of Suspending In-Person Services At Social Security Administration Field Offices On Disability Applications And Allowances ...

      From Does Remote Work Help Older People With Disabilities? by Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby, a study for the Center for Retirement Res...

      Seven Democratic Senators have written the Commissioner of Social Security asking that something be done about disability claims fil...

      From the Times Leader of Scranton, Pennsylvania: A former employee with Social Security Administration was sentenced to three years i...

      The Social Security Administration has posted Emergency Message EM-21032 REV 2 on Evaluating Cases with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVI...

      From Emergency Message EM-24005 : ... On January 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York appro...

From: ^Commissioner Broadcast < Commissioner.Broadcast@ssa.gov > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 2:31 PM Subject: Increasing Our ...

      From Health Affairs Scholar : New data from the Social Security Administration suggest there were 260 000 excess deaths in the United...

     Social Security has posted final numbers on disability claims and awards for calendar year 2023. With the pandemic tamped down to a le...

      In conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security has created Long COVID: A Guide for Health Professio...

      From a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) on the effects of the pandemic on processing of Social Secur...

      The common wisdom is that claimants receive the same decision whether their hearing is in person, over the telephone and by video but ...

      You may have noticed that I'm not posting much recently. That doesn't have to do with me. There is little to report. Things ar...

      Prior to the Covid pandemic, the Social Security Administration used video technology to perform consultative medical examinations (CE...

      From Does the Drop in Child SSI Applications and Awards During COVID Vary by Locality? a study by Michael Levere, Jeffrey Hemmeter, a...

      I haven't been there yet myself but I'm told that at least one local hearing office has dropped the mask requirement. Does thi...

      From CNN : ... Pandemic issues and budget cuts at the Social Security Administration, which handles SSDI claims, have resulted in the...

      Social Security's musculoskeletal Listings will become harder to meet this November. As written many of these Listings require tha...

      There are a lot of acrylic shields in place in Social Security hearing rooms. They're a pain in the neck for those participating i...

      From County-Level Drivers Of Disability Benefit Claims In Times Of Covid-19 by R. Vincent Pohl and David R. Mann: ... Counties that w...