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…
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…
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…
A survey taken the first week in December finds that over 60% of Americans, including those here in Michigan, polled disapproved of President Obama’s handling of the Affordable Care Act roll out. And it’s not just the flawed www.healthcare.gov website that’s earning their wrath.
Nearly 50% of those with job-based or other private coverage say their plans are changing next year, despite the President’s promise they could keep their policy if they were happy with it. Michigan residents have experienced this. And 77% blame the ACA even though the trend towards skimpier policies has the norm for years.
69% of those surveyed say their premiums are increasing and 59% say deductibles and co-pays are rising.