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    • 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

      5 days ago
    • 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…

      a month+ ago

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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…

      2+ years ago
    • 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…

      4+ years ago

    SOCIAL SECURITY COLA 1.5% for 2014

    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.

     

    Call today if you have questions about the Michigan Social Security Disability Attorney and Lawyer Services provided by William Crawforth.

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