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The New York Times wrote another excellent piece about the problems plaguing the Social Security System: Private Insurance Companies harassing the clients they don’t want to pay to apply for Social Security disability benefits. These private disability providers don’t want to disburse benefits to those entitled so they merely refer these poor folks onto [...]

Many disability applicants as well as their attorneys lament the time it takes to get in front of Social Security Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).  The NY Times reported today that in some instances it can take up to three years to get such a hearing.  The problem being is that it takes so long now [...]

The Social Security Administration — where staffing is at its lowest levels since the 1970s and the number of disability claims are at an all-time high — got some hopeful news on its budget yesterday.

The House and Senate appropriations committees agreed to provide the agency with $9.9 billion for operations [...]

Head Commissioner of SSA, Michael Astrue, claims that the backlog of disability cases has been addressed this year.  This backlog has apparently been addressed through overtime work by Social Security staffpeople.  A final rule has been issued for the new “quick disability determination (QDD)” process where electronic evidence can be quickly accessed and used to [...]

Within the last hours of the 109th Congress’s session a bill was passed that will allow Veterans applying for disability benefits to hire attorney representatives or “agents”.   Section 101 of the
Veterans Benefits, Health Care, and Information Technology Act of 2006, S. 3421 amends the former law that didn’t allow attornies to charge a fee for assisting [...]

Due to increases in cost of living the Social Security agency announced they would increase benefits to those that receive disability and SSI benefits.  These benefits actually increase every year in conjunction with a rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers.  This year’s increase is [...]

There are comments due October 3rd for a new proposal by the Social Security Administration to amend the regulations evaluating disorders of the immune system.  Comments on the proposed revision are due by October 3, 2006, and may be submitted to one of the addresses listed in the official notice, which was published in the [...]