Social Security News

      I deal with a lot of clients with psychiatric illness. Most Social Security and Disability Determination employees deal with the same ...

      From David Weaver writing for The Hill : The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently released the results of a major study on d...

    If you're directly involved with Social Security's process of disability determination, have you noticed the number of claimants...

      From the New York Times : Social isolation, economic stress, loss of loved ones and other struggles during the pandemic have contrib...

Client: I need to work but every time I try to go back to work I end up in a psychiatric hospital. Me: Maybe you shouldn't try to retu...

     I happened to re-read this somewhat chilling note I made on a client a couple of months ago: He's not in psych treatment now...

     From The Spectator : The Social Security office in Detroit is a dispiriting place done up in industrial grays. It is filled with t...

     Social Security will publish proposed regulations on the frequency of continuing disability reviews in the Federal Register on Monda...

     An Oregon man has been arrested after threatening to shoot up a Social Security office . This was not the first time he had made such ...

     From a notice published by Social Security in the Federal Register (footnote omitted):    ... In accordance with 20 CFR 402.35(b)(...

The Christmas season is the busiest time of the year for psychiatrists

     The Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office is asking why there is a higher percentage of Vermonters drawing Social Security disabili...

     Erica Crompton has written a moving piece for the New York Times describing her struggle to work as a schizophrenic -- actually no...

     From the Washington Post : The food was nearly gone and the bills were going unpaid, but they still had their pills, and that was ...

     Schizophrenia is a truly horrible disease. It's tragic to see once promising young people reduced to unstable, unproductive lives...

     From Social Security's new mental impairment Listings effective January 17, 2017: 12.07 Somatic symptom and related disorders...

     From Social Security's new mental impairment Listings effective January 17, 2017: 12.08 Personality and impulse-control disor...

     From Social Security's new mental impairment Listings effective January 17, 2017: 12.11 Neurodevelopmental disorders (see 12....

     From Social Security's new mental impairment Listings for children: 112.04 Depressive, bipolar and related disorders (see 11...

     From Social Security's new mental impairment Listings effective January 17, 2017: 12.10 Autism spectrum disorder (see 12.00B8...