Social Security News

      From a recently released report : From Social Security's Freedom of Information website

  From a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General

      The National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE), whose members work at state agencies making disability determinations at the ...

      The Commissioner of Social Security, Martin O'Malley, visited Raleigh yesterday for an event at the Governor's Mansion to cele...

 

      From Emergency Message EM-24021 : With the enactment of our full-year appropriation for this fiscal year, we are lowering our Full Me...

     From things said by Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley during an interview conducted by reporter Lisa Rein of the Washing...

  From a Social Security fact sheet

      Social Security has decided to post a Freedom of Information Act response they've given showing the rates at which the Alabama Di...

    Wouldn't now be the time to end the reconsideration step in Social Security disability determination? Over the years the objection ...

     Here's a note made recently by an employee at my firm about a pending disability claim that may give you some idea of the state of ...

      Social Security has released  numbers showing the backlogs at the initial level on disability claims. This is from more than six month...

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

      The Deseret News in Utah reports that over one million people are waiting for Social Security to act on their disability claims.     ...

      The Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB) has issued a 27 page report titled Social Security and State Disability Determination Servic...

      Some highlights from the President's proposed administrative budget for the Social Security Administration : Office of Inspector G...

      From some television station in Milwaukee: They can’t work, have little money to fall back on, and are waiting months for the approv...

      From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (paywall): A hospital social worker helped Nicholas Johnson fill out dozens of pages of paperwo...

      Social Security has posted numbers through the end of 2022 showing how many people filed disability claims, how many of those claims ...

    From Lisa Rein at the Washington Post : The Disability Determination Division in Austin was at a breaking point. Inside its vast two-st...