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…
The flu vaccine administered each fall is based on an educated guess by scientists and public health physicians. The virus mutates and changes every year and the goal is to prepare and distribute a vaccine tailored to the current year’s flu.
Some years there are more than one vaccine and more than one flu. It appears the vaccine administered last fall did not hit the mark as wide-spread flu out breaks of the most serious strain, influenza A, are reported in over 50 % of the nation, including Michigan.
The Center for Disease Control is reporting this season’s numbers are approaching the very busy 2012-2013 flu season. By comparison, last year’s numbers were relatively low.
Despite the lack of a perfect match, public health officials and physicians are still recommending people who have not had a flu shot yet to get one. The timing of flu outbreaks can vary widely throughout the country and localities that that experienced an early outbreak could see it come back again before the season is over.