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It looks like the new Social Security Commissioner, Martin O’Malley, is really taking charge. A number of changes have been implemented in the several weeks Commissioner O’Malley has been on the job. Among the most meaningful is decreasing the default overpayment withholding rate to 10% (or $10, whichever is greater) from 100%. This will significantly…
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Social Security uses what is called the “fee agreement process” to pay representatives who help Claimants. For those signing an appropriate fee agreement Social Security will approve the agreement and pay the representative up to 25% of a retroactive fee. Since November 2022 that retroactive fee could not exceed $7,200. Sometime this fall the cap…
3+ weeks ago
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Summer 2021 Newsletter STILL STANDING…AND PRACTICING I published the first issue of Social Security & You in Spring of 1993. Some years I’ve published more issues than others. The most recent issue was dated Spring 2019: over 2 years ago. The world was a much different place then. Especially for me. Read the full newsletter…
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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…
4+ years ago
CVS TO STOP SELLING TOBACCO PRODUCTS
CVS, the 2nd largest pharmacy chain in the United States, has a large presence in Michigan. CVS announced that beginning this fall its stores will not sell tobacco products of any kind. This means Michigan residents will not be able to buy cigarettes, cigars, rolling tobacco or pipe tobacco in CVS stores. CVS sells an estimated $2 billion in tobacco products annually.
The move is supposed to align the company more with its core business of health promotion. Flu shots have been available for years in Michigan CVS stores and the stores are establishing medical clinics in some locations, including some in Michigan.
Walgreens, the nation’s largest pharmacy chain, which also has a large Michigan presence, is said to be studying the issue.
As long as Michigan gas stations sell tobacco products it is unlikely the change will do anything but shift the income from pharmacies to other outlets.
Of course, my Social Security disability & SSI clients are consistently advised by their physicians to quit smoking, regardless of their disability.
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