COLA: 3.2%Attorney User Fee: $117SSI Amounts: $943 for individuals and $1,415 for a couple/monthFICA wage base: $168,600Quarter of coverage amount: $1,730Substantial gainful activity amount (non-blind): $1,550/monthTrial work period threshold: $1,110/month
As is often the case, the Social Security Administration is lagging behind the medical community. This time the so-called “long hauler” COVID patients are getting short shrift. SSA doesn’t recognize that COVID symptoms can last for a long time after the test results are negative and, perhaps permanently. Attorney Crawforth has represented several of these…
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…
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…
Michigan hospitals are reporting a rising number of hospitalizations for a severe form of H1N1 influenza, commonly known as the swine flu. Michigan Public health officials say the outbreak is similar to the 2009 pandemic, although this year’s outbreak isn’t as wide-spread in Michigan…yet.
This season the flu seems to be striking younger and middle age adults more frequently in Michigan. Sometimes the severity is such that persons die or become disabled and recipients of Social Security disability benefits or SSI. Most of the stricken were not vaccinated, even though the supplies of this year’s vaccine are high in Michigan. It is not too late to be vaccinated. Contact your primary care physician or local Michigan public health department.