Social Security News

       I'm hearing from North Carolina Disability Determination Services (DDS) that they have no more funds to pay for consultative medi...

      I thought that the Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB) was defunct, killed off by the Trump Administration, a few months ago but the...

      From a press release issued by Social Security’s Office of Inspector General: From FY 2019 to FY 2023, Disability Determinations Serv...

      From the Urban Institute : Click on image to view full size

      From Emergency Message EM-25009 issued last Friday: This emergency message (EM) provides the Disability Determination Services (DDS) a...

      From a recent release from Social Security :

      From a recently released report . Click on image to view full size. The full report breaks it down by state and region.

      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...