Social Security News

      From Forbes : Last year, the Biden administration announced a new initiative to streamline student loan relief for certain disabled ...

      From CNBC : The U.S. Department of Education has suspended the seizure of tax refunds, Social Security and other government payments ...

      From Forbes : The Biden administration took a big step this week towards making significant changes to a key federal student loan forg...

      From National Public Radio : The U.S. Education Department announced Thursday that it is discharging the outstanding student loans of...

     From Forbes : Student loan borrower advocacy organizations filed a formal petition today, calling on the Biden administration to grant...

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) : Background: Individuals with TPD [Total and Permanen...

     From the Texas Tribune :   If 69-year-old Lynda Sue Costley wants to shower, she has to go to a friend’s house. Her trailer, on a g...

     The Christian Science Monitor has a nice article on the big and growing problem of student loan debt among those receiving Social Se...

     From Marketwatch : Since 2007 Linda Carrasquillo has been unable to work due to an injury she suffered at her job cleaning buses.  ...

     From WFLA : Mamie Walker is 84-years-old, has never attended college and depends on her monthly social security check of $1,498 to ...

     I missed that the big tax bill passed at the end of 2017 contained a change that benefits some disabled individuals. You were already...

     From the Los Angeles Times : A group of former students defrauded by for-profit colleges is alleging in court that the Educat...

     From a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren to the Inspector Generals at the Department of Education and the Social Security Adminis...

     From a piece in Huffpost written by Nancy Altman and Raúl Grijalva: ... [U]ntil 1996, income from Social Security was one of the fe...

     From the New York Daily News : The feds are ripping off disabled Social Security recipients by skimming their benefits in order to...

     The New York Time s has an editorial today on the rapidly increasing problem of student loan debt among the elderly. The editorial ur...

     From Market Watch : For about a year, Hector Rodriguez lost a portion of his limited income, including in some months, a portion ...

     From the Washington Post : The Treasury Department refuse[d] to stop forcing permanently disabled people to pay taxes on student...

     The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a 90 page report on the offsets applied to Social Security benefits due to unp...

     From Michael Hiltzik writing in the Los Angeles Times : The Department of Education and the Social Security Administration jointly...