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Showing posts with label Emergency Messages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emergency Messages. Show all posts
Apr 28, 2025

Default Overpayment Recovery Rate To Be 50%

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      Newly issued Social Security Emergency Message EM 25029 indicates that the default overpayment recovery rate will be 50%, not 100% as...
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Mar 27, 2025

Orthopedic Listing Interpretation Change Upcoming

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      During the pandemic Social Security made the criteria for approval of a disability claim based upon some orthopedic conditions less on...
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Feb 3, 2025

Gender Changes No Longer Accepted

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      From Emergency Message 25014 issued last Friday: A.  Purpose This emergency message (EM) provides guidance regarding changes to sex d...
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Jan 21, 2025

Disability Examiners Getting Authority To Issue Allowances Without Medical Consultant Input

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      From Emergency Message EM-25009 issued last Friday: This emergency message (EM) provides the Disability Determination Services (DDS) a...
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Oct 4, 2024

Social Security Beginning To Text With Claimants

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      From Emergency Message EM-25051 : ... Prior to September 28, 2024, technicians used email as the sole means to communicate with custo...
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Sep 30, 2024

CDRs To Resume

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      Social Security is resuming Continuing Disability Reviews (CDRs) in October for the new federal fiscal year. The CDRs had been suspe...
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Jul 17, 2024

New Emergency Message On Collateral Estoppel

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      From Emergency Message EM-24033 Disability Collateral Estoppel Policy – Change of Position This emergency message (EM) announces the ...
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Jul 12, 2024

New Policy For Reopening Due To New Five Year Past Relevant Work Standard

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      From Emergency Message EM-24023 :  Beginning June 22, 2024, adjudicators will reopen a prior final agency determination or decision ba...
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Jun 26, 2024

Res Judicata Won't Apply To Denials Based Upon Ability To Perform Work Outside The New Five Year Time Period

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      From Emergency Message EM-24028 : ... We will not apply res judicata to bar readjudication of a previously adjudicated period when th...
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Jun 24, 2024

A Busy Saturday For Social Security

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      It was a busy Saturday for Social Security. Yes, a busy Saturday!      First, Social Security has added significantly more data to the...
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May 22, 2024

SSA Stops CDRs For The Remainder Of The Fiscal Year

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      From Emergency Message EM-24021 : With the enactment of our full-year appropriation for this fiscal year, we are lowering our Full Me...
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May 13, 2024

Overpayment Administrative Tolerance Changing From $1,000 To $2,000 Today

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      From Emergency Message EM-24019 : ... Effective May 13, 2024, we are updating the administrative waiver tolerance policy to improve c...
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Apr 1, 2024

A New EM On Covid

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      The Social Security Administration has posted Emergency Message EM-21032 REV 2 on Evaluating Cases with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVI...
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Mar 27, 2024

Emergency Message On Change In Default Rate For Collecting Overpayments

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      The Social Security Administration has issued Emergency Message EM-24011 SEN on the recent decision by the Commissioner to change the...
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Mar 19, 2024

Some Help On SSI Payment Backlogs

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    From Emergency Message EM-24009 : ... Since May of 1992, a prepayment review is required for any SSI case (initial or post eligibility)...
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Feb 28, 2024

EM On Overpayments During Covid

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      From Emergency Message EM-24005 : ... On January 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York appro...
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Dec 6, 2023

Social Security Says Don't Rely On SkillTRAN For Numbers Of Jobs

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      From Emergency Message EM-21065 REV , Guidelines for Using Occupational Information in Electronic Tools issued yesterday (emphasis add...
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