Social Security News

     Social Security is adding some new conditions to its compassionate allowance list of conditions that are supposed to result in having...

    From a recent update to Social Security's POMS (Program Operations Manual Series) manual: To promote homogeneity between the Dire N...

     The dates that Social Security places on its outgoing mail are mostly fictitious. Most outgoing mail is printed and mailed from a centr...

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

      Let's say you're developmentally disabled, meaning you've been disabled from birth. You start drawing SSI as a child due t...

     From a newly added changes to POMS (Program Operations Manual Series) §DI 52150 : ... A lump sum award may specify a payment amount bas...

      From a new issuance in Social Security's POMS manual : The Office of Disability Policy (ODP) is updating its instructions in DI ...

     There have been rumors that an increase in the cap on fees that attorneys can charge for representing Social Security claimants is com...

      From a new update to Social Security's main operating manual (POMS): Transgender individuals contact us for all of the same reaso...

     Social Security has now issued new instructions to allow for video consultative examinations of disability claimants but only by p...

     Social Security is updating the section of its POMS manual dealing with the economic stimulus payments it last made in 2011 during...

     Social Security has added a new section to its POMS manual on representation of claimants. I'm not sure how much is new. Here ar...

     I was under the impression that Social Security had long since processed all of the claims based upon same sex marriages that had bee...

     From a recent change in Social Security's Program Operations Manual Series (POMS) : We are removing the NOTE in GN 02607.001 .B...

     A recent addition to Social Security's Program Operations Manual Series (POMS) contains this useful summary of citations from th...

     From a recent Emergency Message issued by the Social Security Administration: On May 5, 2018, the Division of PolicyNet Managem...

     The Social Security Administration has updated the staff instructions in its POMS manual for Achieving a Better Life Experience (A...

     I spotted a new Social Security acronym recently, EDPNA. At least, it was new to me. It stands for Eligible for Direct Pay Non-Attorn...

     From Ann Brenoff writing for Huffpost : For the past 12 months, your tax dollars have been going to pay Social Security benefits t...

     Not too long ago someone told me that this example had been added to Social Security's Program Operations Manual Series (POMS) : ...