Social Security News

     It's hard to evaluate the new Social Security Ruling on the evaluation of obesity on its face. It's only precise when it set...

     A new Social Security Ruling, SSR 19-2p , is out on "Evaluating Cases Involving Obesity." My initial reading is that the Ru...

     Jody Schimmel Hyde of the Mathematica Center for Studying Disability Policy has issued a report on the prelevance of obesity among a...

     I hope this debate isn't coming to the U.S.

     Christopher Pashler of the State University of New York at Buffalo has done a study of Social Security's treatment of disability cl...

From Obesity, Disability, and Movement Onto The Disability Rolls by Richard V. Burkhauser and John Cawley: The magnitude of the impact of ...