From today’s New York Daily News, the president gets a up-close-and- personal story about the dysfunction of the Social Secuirty claim process for terminally ill…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a thoughtful article on the travails of obtaining disability payments from Social Security, specifically about how people underestimate the difficulty…
From the American Medical Association News today: The Social Security Administration says it has already demonstrated the business value of a national health information exchange…
From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution: The Social Security Administration has reduced its staffing by more than 5 percent since 2003, to about 60,000. That means…
While Social Security predicts a substantial reduction in waits for hearings by 2012, many claimants need a more immediate fix. This article discusses the reasons…
In Psychiatric Times today, noted Vanderbilt clincal professor Samuel O. Okpaku MD, PhD notes that about 20% of adults who receive Social Security disability benefits…
Over the past year, the newspaper The Oregonian, Portland and Oregon’s local paper, has been running a series carefully documenting the devastating delays at the…
Government Executive reports today: The economic downturn, inadequate funding and red tape are at the core of an increasing backlog of Social Security disability cases,…