Social Security News

     From a press release issued by Social Security on March 20 of this year: Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley today announ...

      From Challenges in Recovering Supplemental Security Income Overpayments , a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector Genera...

      From Reducing Processing Centers’ Pending Actions , a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): ...  SSA met ...

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

      Mark Warshawsky, of the right wing American Enterprise Institute, has written an op ed for the Baltimore Sun trashing Social Security...

      WPXI , a television station in Pittsburgh, has been covering Social Security's overpayment problems. Here's some excerpts from...

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

      From WMAR : A Maryland senior is fighting an overpayment notice from the Social Security Administration. The additional money was sup...

      From a press release : Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley today announced he is taking four vital steps to immediately addr...

      Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley testified before the Senate Aging Committee today. Here's are some excerpts from ...

      From KFF Health News : The Social Security Administration’s new chief is promising to overhaul the agency’s system of clawing back bi...

      From a recent "Dear Colleague" letter from Social Security to attorneys who represent claimants before the agency: ... We o...

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

      Recent press reports about the harshness of Social Security's treatment of overpayments remind me of the character Inspector Javer...

    From WSB in Atlanta: Denise Woods drives around Georgia strip malls, truck stops, and parking lots, looking for a safe place to sleep e...

      One in four Social Security recipients reports having received an overpayment .

      The New York Times has a piece up on Social Security’s overpayment problem and its brutal effects on claimants.

      In one of her last acts as Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Kililo Kijakazi issued an apology for her confused testimony befor...

      I can't say whether this is related to the recent publicity concerning overpayments to Social Security claimants but the agency ha...

    From Government Executive : The Social Security Administration has demanded money back from more than 2 million people a year — more th...