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Social Security is introducing a way for my Social Security account holders to access their number & card, digitally, so it is not necessary to carry around their Social Security card. Beginning this summer it will be possible to access the number in a secure manner for purposes other than dealing with the Social Security…
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Acting Social Security Commissioner, Leland Dudek has voiced the agency’s full support for President Trumps memorandum “Preventing Illegal Aliens from Receiving Social Security Act Benefits”. The President’s memo directs SSA to take several steps to stop illegal aliens and other ineligible people from drawing benefits. Among those are investigating whether people over 100 years of…
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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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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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