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…
The Social Security Administration announced this fall the cost of living increase for recipients of Social Security Retirement, Survivors & Disability Insurance Benefits (RSDI) as well as Supplemental Security Income Benefits (SSI), is 1.5%.
Individual SSI recipients will receive $721 per month. The SSI benefit for 2013 was $710. Couples on SSI will receive $1,028.
The maximum monthly RSDI benefit will be $2,642 while the average benefit for a retired worker will be $1,294 and the average benefit for a retired couple will be $2,111.
The average monthly RSDI benefit for a disabled worker will be $1,148.
As outlined in the fall 2013 issue of Social Security Disability & You, there is a proposal to alter the formula used to calculate the annual COLA increase in benefits.