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…
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…
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…
CVS, the 2nd largest pharmacy chain in the United States, has a large presence in Michigan. CVS announced that beginning this fall its stores will not sell tobacco products of any kind. This means Michigan residents will not be able to buy cigarettes, cigars, rolling tobacco or pipe tobacco in CVS stores. CVS sells an estimated $2 billion in tobacco products annually.
The move is supposed to align the company more with its core business of health promotion. Flu shots have been available for years in Michigan CVS stores and the stores are establishing medical clinics in some locations, including some in Michigan.
Walgreens, the nation’s largest pharmacy chain, which also has a large Michigan presence, is said to be studying the issue.
As long as Michigan gas stations sell tobacco products it is unlikely the change will do anything but shift the income from pharmacies to other outlets.
Of course, my Social Security disability & SSI clients are consistently advised by their physicians to quit smoking, regardless of their disability.
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