Social Security News

Final regulations for Commissioner Barnhart's plan to alter Social Security's processes for adjudicating disability claims have been...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report on Social Security's efforts to safeguard Social Security numbers and ...

There are many steps that SSA must take before it implements Commissioner Barnhart's new plan for the Social Security disability process...

Nancy Shor, executive director of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR), is quoted in the Philadel...

Commissioner Barnhart appeared on C-SPAN today to talk about her new disability adjudication plan, among other things. A video is available...

These are some early observations on the new rules based upon a quick reading: The new regulations are effective on August 1, 2006 . T...

Social Security has already modified its press release to eliminate the link to the text of the rules to be published in the Federal Registe...

Below is SSA's response to complaints about the effects on the federal courts of the Commissioner's plan. This appears in the statem...