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It would have been hard to imagine the changes in our lives in just a few weeks due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Restaurants, bars and “non-essential” businesses have closed. Millions have been laid off. There aren’t sporting events or entertainment of any type. As of April 20th, over 41,000 deaths were attributed to the…
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The Social Security Administration has announced there will be no Cost of Living Adjustment in 2016 for the nearly 65 million Americans drawing Social Security disability, retirement or SSI benefits. This is because there was no inflation between the third quarter of 2014 and 2015 as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage…
4+ years ago
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Spring 2019 Newsletter An Opioid Story I’ve changed his name. Let’s call him Gerald. He was a laborer. And by that I don’t mean that he just did physical work. He was a card-carrying member the Labor’s Union local. And that meant a lot to him. I represented him for Social Security disability and Michigan…
11+ months ago -
Winter 2018 Newsletter Congress, Once Again, Sets Its Sights On SSA Periodically, Congress will decide to “streamline” or “reform” Social Security, especially disability, in order to “ensure the future of the benefits’: In September that came around again. Hearings were held on September 6, 2017 before the House Ways & Means Committee regarding how eligibility…
a year+ ago
STUDY REVEALS DISTRIBUTION OF DISABILITY & SSI BENEFITS BY STATE
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued a study last year of the receipt of SS disability & SSI benefits by state. While 6% of the population receive one of the 2, nationwide, there is a wide variance by state.
Over 11% receive benefits in Kentucky & West Virginia and over 9% in Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Maine. The study pointed to lower education levels in those states, as well as an aging work force. Both impact on allowance rates through the Medical-Vocational Guidelines or “grids”.
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