Social Security News

    From Katie Tastrom writing for THINK : In a letter to state Medicaid directors Thursday morning , the Trump administration announce...

     From a recent addition to Social Security's Program Operations Manual Series (POMS) : Claimants do not have to meet the non-dis...

     The U.S. Senate will soon take up the Republican healthcare bill. Call it Trumpcare if you will. The current plan is that the text of...

     Matt Fuller noticed something interesting hidden in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projection of the effects of the Republica...

     I was wondering what Michael Astrue, the most recent Commissioner of Social Security, was up to. I found an opinion piece that he ha...

     From Modern Healthcare : The number of Arkansas residents signing up for federal disability benefits has dropped 19% since October 2...

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     I have added a Health Exchange widget on the right side of the page. This allows readers to get information from the Department of Hea...

     I received this e-mail from Social Security today, probably because I have set up a MySSA account: Affordable H ealth  Care Need ...

     Those who predicted that the Supreme Court would hold the Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) constitutional have been proved correct....

     From Improving Access: Expanding Acceptable Medical Sources for the Social Security Administration Disability Determination Process , ...

     From a press release issued by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: The prevalence of self-reported mental health disabilities ...

Bruce Webb at the Angry Bear blog makes an interesting observation about the annual report of Social Security's trustees issued yesterd...

From The Oregonian : Sue Sherman of Southwest Portland lived a peaceful, healthy life until she was dealt an ugly card last year: a diagnos...

From the Washington Post (emphasis added): The call to arms was issued at 5:55 a.m. last Friday. "To all modern Sons of Liberty: TH...

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A couple of items from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's blog on the immediate effects of the health care bill that was just signed into law...

From the Associated Press : Disabled by chronic back pain and unable to afford medical insurance, Lea Walker hoped President Barack Obama...

The Coalition to End the Two-Year Wait for Medicare has sent a letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate Majority...

From the Boston Herald : M assachusetts is owed $160 million from the federal government for a little-known Social Security policy that’s be...