Social Security News

    I think this chart from a recent Urban Institute report is interesting. (DI = Disability Insurance):

     Social Security has sent out its first staff instruction on what to do with same sex marriages in the wake of the Supreme Court decis...

     From an AP piece : Driven to reduce a huge backlog of disability claims , Social Security is pushing judges to award benefits to pe...

     Some excerpts from the written statements of witnesses at today's hearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committ...

     Here's the witness list for tomorrow's hearing before the House Oversight Committee, with the reversal rates for each of the A...

     The Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prevented the Social Security Administration and other agencies from recognizing same sex ma...

     From a Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) set to appear in the Federal Register tomorrow: To better utilize our limited resou...

     The Wall Street Journal is running a story on a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General concerning payment of be...