Social Security News

      Mark Miller writes for the New York Times about the challenges that a new occupational information database presents for the Social S...

      Social Security has posted numbers on initial allowance rates by state and region on disability claims for the fiscal year that ended...

      I want to circle back to something that was in the Washington Post article about Social Security’s decision to scrap their plan to red...

      From the Urban Institute : SSA’s forthcoming regulation includes three major components: Replacing outdated occupational data : SSA pl...

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

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

      From a press release issued by the Republican majority on the House Ways and Means Committee: Four recently finalized rules from the ...

      From a press release issued by the General Services Administration (GSA): The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced its lates...

      From Emergency Message EM-24023 :  Beginning June 22, 2024, adjudicators will reopen a prior final agency determination or decision ba...

      The  definition of past relevant work for Social Security disability determination was supposed to change from 15 years to 5 years on ...

  From a Social Security fact sheet

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

      The Social Security Administration has issued new instructions in its POMS manual on transferability of skills for purposes of determi...

    On March 18, 2023, Charis Clark and Karen Litschgi of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) gave a presentation to the American Board of ...

  Kafka     Mark Betancourt has written a piece for Mother Jones magazine titled Inside The Kafkaesque Process For Determining Who Gets Fed...

      The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled against a patent application that promises to determine whether ...

      One question that gets asked from time to time is "How much is a Social Security disability claim worth?" If you try to figu...

      From the Social Security Administration (click on each image to view full size):

      Take a look at this academic study, Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance by Manasi Deshpande of the ...

      From a notice of a book forthcoming in September : . .. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin...