Social Security News

    Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forth their plan for what that they hope to extort from the President by threatenin...

     The biggest mystery in the Social Security world is what is happening with the rate at which claims for Social Security disability be...

     People like me who represent disability claimants may think that we're the only ones interested in how the Social Security Admi...

     Some right wing "think tanks" have been promoting the notion that mandatory private disability benefits could somehow subst...

     A lawsuit has been filed in St. Clair County, Illinois against Allsup, a large non-attorney group that represents Social Security di...

     Companies which write Long Term Disability (LTD) insurance policies are paying attention to the debate over what to do about the imp...

     From Bloomberg : The cost of long-term disability claims rose for at least a fifth straight year as expenses tied to the aging workf...

     From the Belleville News-Democrat : Belleville-based Allsup Inc. [which represents Social Secu...

From a press release : The Council for Disability Awareness (CDA) today announced that the number of long term disability claims [mostly a...

     From LifeHealthPro , an insurance industry website: Michael Astrue, commissioner of the Social Security Administrator (SSA), is beggi...

     Is there some tension, or perhaps self-contradiction, in this section of Social Security's manual? Section 207 of the Social Secur...

     For years Allsup has been using public relations to promote their business of representing Social Security disability claimant. The ef...

See the decision in Kisor v. Advantage 2000 Consultants , No. 10-1045-WEB (D. Kan. June 30, 2011), concerning a non-attorney group ( Advanta...

From a press release : According to new research 1 from The Hartford , 49 percent of U.S. workers have short-term disabili...

From a press release : After proudly serving the long-term disability insurance industry for 15 years, Attorneys Ann Marie Beaudoin and Vic...

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing for September 28 to investigate the question Do Private Long-Term Disability Policies P...

That qui tam (or whistle blower) lawsuit claiming that UNUM , an insurance company which writes Long Term Disability (LTD) insurance and adm...

From a press release : The 2010 Long-Term Disability Claims Review, conducted by the Council for Disability Awareness (CDA) [an orga...

Allsup, which represents Social Security disability claimants mostly on behalf of long term disability insurers but which is also seeking in...

From EM-09078 issued by Social Security last Friday: Republic Bank and Trust (RBT) has notified SSA that it is discontinuing its Currency ...