People drawing disability and retirement benefits will receive the recently authorized federal $1200 stimulus payments related to COVID19. The bill directs payments of $1,200 to…
Will SSA provide in-person services during the COVID-19 pandemic? Here’s what they say: No. Please do not come into one of our local offices. We…
March is National Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. It’s to educate about common form of head injuries called “mild traumatic brain injuries” or concussions. Concussions…
In the early 1980s, the Ronald Reagan administration terminated benefits for thousands of disabled people who were supposedly loafing on Social Security Disability Insurance instead…
A 40-year-old policy that made inability to communicate in English a partial factor in awarding disability benefits. That is changing in April. Social Security says…
At the beginning of 2019, Social Security paid an average monthly disability benefit of about $1,234 to all disabled workers. That is barely enough to…
Every year, the Social Security Board of Trustees releases its short-term (10-year) and long-term (75-year) outlook for the program, taking into account a number of…
It is sometimes possible to re-open prior disability claims as part of a new claim filing, if a medical condition has been ongoing. You cannot…
Disability payments from private sources, such as private pensions or insurance benefits, don’t affect your Social Security disability benefits. Workers’ compensation and other public disability…
Patients seek out doctors to provide treatment and cures, and physicians practice medicine hoping to successfully diagnose and treat people with illnesses. Contrary to those…