Social Security News

From Federal Computer Week : The Social Security Administration has started an interactive online map to highlight the 19 states that have ...

Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on the Social Security Administration's response to furlough...

From the Contra Costa Times : For more than a year, state workers who go through disability applications were ordered by [California] Gov. ...

First, let me give some history. The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program was introduced in the 1970s. It replaced earlier state progr...

Social Security has posted an impressive website giving information about the effects of state government employee furloughs on Social Secu...

An Op Ed piece appearing in the Los Angeles Times, written by Michael Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, and Yvonne Walker, president...

The Associated Press reports that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered a new round of furloughs for state workers until the...

A press release from Social Security: Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that the agency is submitting l...

From the New York Times : Lawmakers in Maine have found an unusual tool for tackling their state’s pension woes: Social Security . Just a...

From the Metrowest Daily News : The potential loss of more than $600 million in federal aid once deemed a sure thing has had Massachusetts ...

From the Sacramento Bee : An Alameda County judge on Thursday ordered back pay for tens of thousands of state workers who he...

A press release from Social Security Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today called for the California State Assembly to q...

From the Boston Herald : T housands of disabled Bay Staters in dire need of federal aid are facing longer delays after a Patrick administr...

An editorial in the Cleveland Plain Dealer : Ohio, by furloughing federally paid state employees who screen Social Security disability cla...

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer : Commissioner of Social Security Michael Astrue said Ohio is losing millions of dollars and contributing t...

From the New York Times : Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took his first shot at closing California’s impending $20 billion budget gap on Friday...

A press release from Social Security: Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, issued the following statement reg...

I was not expecting there to be news about Social Security on New Year's Day, but there is. State budget problems have become a major he...

From a report of the California State Senate Rules Committee : Disability Programs. We found that by taking workers off the job as many as t...

From MSNBC : According to the Social Security Administration, which runs the two main federal disability programs, new claims for disability...