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…
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.