Social Security News

      From a recent presentation by the Commissioner of Social Security: Click on image to view full size     What if I told you that claima...

April 2024 numbers. From Social Security . Click on image to view full size.  

      Posted by Social Security's Commissioner, Martin O'Malley, on Twitter : Some good news: I’m proud to report that #SSA hit a 3...

      Social Security management has a strong lean in the direction of centralizing anything that can be centralized and some that can't...

       The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) , a large umbrella organization of non-profits who aid the disabled, has filed co...

      The common wisdom is that claimants receive the same decision whether their hearing is in person, over the telephone and by video but ...

      The Social Security Administration has posted a Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) in the Federal Register to make official the av...

     Not that there was any doubt, but Social Security has decided to make telephone and video hearings a permanent option.     This is ex...

  Kafka     Mark Betancourt has written a piece for Mother Jones magazine titled Inside The Kafkaesque Process For Determining Who Gets Fed...

      Yesterday I received word through the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) that the number of h...

      The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress produces reports to aid Congress in carrying out its duties. They've...

     The report shown below was obtained from Social Security by the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (N...

Senator Leahy       Patrick Leahy, the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has released a draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 appropria...

     From CNBC : President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget could give the Social Security Administration a $1.3 billion — or 9.7% — boost in funding...

      In the twilight days of the Trump Administration, Social Security adopted new regulations allowing Administrative Appeals Judges (AAJs...

      In August Social Security asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to authorize final regulations to allow Administrative Appea...

      I don't know how widespread the problem is but I'm hearing of serious technical problems with Social Security's telephone ...

      I understand from the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) that Social Security is hoping to of...

     Can Social Security start holding in person hearings prior to the release of a vaccine for Covid-19? Many disability claimants are ...

     Some claimants whose cases have already been scheduled for a hearing by Social Security are declining the offer of a telephone hearin...