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After months of speculation and estimates due to the inflation experienced by the US economy, we now know that 70 million Americans will receive an average increase of $140 per month in their Social Security benefits. Based upon the increase in the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index (CPI-W), benefits will rise 8.7%. This good…
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A bottleneck at the Disability Determination Service level is being addressed by the Office of Hearings Operations (OHO) by transferring “a significant number” of Attorney Advisors to the DDS for one year stint. The OHO also reports 56 new Administrative Law Judges have been hired and will start their training this month.
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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…
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CURRENT ESTIMATE OF 2022 COLA EVEN HIGHER
The Senior Citizens League estimated earlier this year the Cost of Living Adjustment for Social Security benefits would rise 5.3% for 2022. That estimate has now jumped to 6.2%.
The COLA is determined each year by the rise in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) through the third quarter of the prior year.
The estimated hike would be the highest since the 7.4% increase in 1983.
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