Dec 10, 2025

Merry Christmas

 


Dec 9, 2025

Dec 8, 2025

Disparities In Disability Determination

      Social Security has posted numbers on initial allowance rates by state and region on disability claims for the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2025. As always, click on the image to view full size. Note the disparities between and within regions. You were much better off filing a disability claim in the Kansas City region than the San Francisco region.




 

Merry Christmas

 




Dec 7, 2025

Merry Christmas

 


Dec 6, 2025

Dec 5, 2025

Man Charged With Threatening To Blow Up Field Office

     From WWNY TV

A Watertown [NY] man is accused of threatening to blow up a government office in the city.

City police charged 32-year-old Edmanuel Rivero-Vazquez with making a threat of mass harm.

During a meeting with staff at the Social Security Administration office on Bellew Avenue on Wednesday, Rivero-Vazquez allegedly threatened to blow up the building. ...

Dec 4, 2025

Eye Rolling Comments From Trump

      Donald Trump is saying that he likes the idea of Australia’s defined contribution retirement program instead of U.S.’s defined benefits plan. Defined contribution means you have no guaranteed retirement income. Maybe you get more than a defined benefits plan. Maybe not. The risk is yours. Also, how does a defined contribution handle disability and survivor benefits? Maybe those contingencies never happen in Trumpworld. Oh, and there’s also the little problem of how we would transition from what we have now to a defined contribution plan, a problem that has no conceivable solution.

     Talking about the U.S. switching to a defined contribution plan is a sure sign that you know virtually nothing about Social Security.

     At least I’m talking about eye rolling comments from the President rather than the problem he has keeping his eyes open.