Social Security News

      Theresa Gruber, who was Deputy Commissioner for Hearings Operations, has passed away at the age of 54. No cause of death is listed.  ...

      A former Social Security employee can't believe how bad service is at his old agency these days. By the way, I was around in what...

      From the History Channel: ...  Ruth Bader married Martin David Ginsburg, whom she had met at Cornell, shortly after receiving her bach...

     From Government Executive : The [Merit Systems Protection Board, MSPB] that determines federal employees’ challenges to adverse ac...

     Former Commissioner of Social Security, Michael Astrue, testified before some House subcommittee yesterday. The article I'm getti...

     From the Boston Globe : [F]issures between Michael Astrue and Donald Berwick, a Democratic candidate for governor, opened in early ...

     You may have vaguely noticed that one aspect of the all out press by Republicans to prevent the Affordable Care Act, also known as O...

     About a month ago former Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue took a job as non-executive chairman of the board of Vivus, a bio...

     I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on former Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue's new job with VIVUS but it lo...

     From a press release : VIVUS, Inc.  ... which recently began selling the obesity drug Qsymia (phentermine and topiramate extended-re...

     Former Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue submitted the following haiku via twitter to an NPR show that was celebrating Nati...

     Some excerpts from an address by former Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue at a Social Security Advisory Board (SSAB) forum ...

     Forner Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue gave an interview to Michel Martin, an NPR reporter, that was aired yesterday. Here...

     Michael Astrue appeared on Neil Cavuto's show on Fox Business News yesterday. Here are some things I gleaned from this appearance...

     There is a Social Security Alumni Association . It has an office at Social Security headquarters in Baltimore.

     From the Baltimore Sun : Llewellyn Washington Woolford Sr., a retired Social Security Administration attorney who was a past Howard ...

From a press release : Dorcas R. Hardy, former Commissioner of Social Security, has been named Chair of the National Advisory Board ...

I had recently posted a link to a news article about Social Security's new Regional Commissioner for the Atlanta region. That made me wo...

The Social Security Administration has released a new issue of the Social Security Bulletin , the agency's scholarly publication. This i...

The New York Times has a nice obituary on the late Robert Myers. He was one of the most important architects of Social Security in America....