Social Security News

      From Social Security’s Office of Inspector   While SSA has made progress implementing corrective actions for both the OASDI and SSI pr...

      Newly issued Social Security Emergency Message EM 25029 indicates that the default overpayment recovery rate will be 50%, not 100% as...

      I warned this might happen. From Social Security’s blog : The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced it will increase the defa...

      From a new issuance to Social Security's POMS manual : Household income at or below 150 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)...

     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 .