Social Security News

    Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forth their plan for what that they hope to extort from the President by threatenin...

     From a recent new posting to Social Security's Covid-19 page : We recently changed our rules about what financial assistance can af...

 Why Are There Fewer Social Security Disability Claims Now?      There has been a 32% decline in the number of disability claims receiv...

     From the Center for Economic and Policy Research : At a time of unprecedented inequality, the Washington Post is quick to seize on ...

     The abstract of Reconciling Findings On The Employment Effect Of Disability Insurance by John Bound , Stephan Lindner and Timothy Wai...

     A high percentage of people who apply for Disability Insurance Benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act also apply for dis...

     From a March 4, 2014 letter from Stephen Goss, Social Security's Chief Actuary, to the Office of Management and Budget: I am w...

     From a press release issued by the Columbia Business School: With millions of Americans' unemployment benefits expiring, and as...

     From a piece in U.S. News & World Report (they're still in business?) by Chad Stone: The other major policy issue that der...

     At the moment the bill to extend emergency unemployment benefits is stalled in the Senate . Even if the Senate could pass the bill, it...

     Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times doesn't like the idea of reducing Social Security disability benefits because of the rec...

     From Politico : Senate Democrats are coming together on a proposal that would pay for a revival of emergency unemployment benefits ...

     Wonkblog at the Washington Post decided to look into the question of whether people who are about to lose their unemployment insuranc...

     Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on Impact of Increases in State Unemployment Rates on the ...

     From the Wall Street Journal's Economy Stream Blog : The sharp rise in federal disability rolls in recent years has sparked wor...

     If it's a form of discrimination for an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) to deny disability claims because claimant s have received...

     From Social Security Ruling 13-1p to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow: "Possible examples of allegations that the A...

     From Overlapping Disability and Unemployment Benefits Should be Evaluated for Potential Savings , a Government Accountability Office (G...

     The think tanks are really churning out reports on the Social Security disability programs. The latest comes from  Kathy Ruffing of th...

     Stephan Lindner and Austin Nichols at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College have done a study , dealing, in part, with t...