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 January/February issue of the AARP Bulletin contained information regarding the long wait times for disability hearings at various Office of Hearing Operations locations, nationwide. Portland, OR is 22 months, San Francisco, CA 20 months and Dallas, TX 21 months, for example.
The wait times in Michigan are much lower, at present. In the OHOs where I practice the most (Livonia, Oak Park, Mt. Pleasant & Lansing) the wait times are just a few months, depending on the Administrative Law Judge to which the case is assigned.
In fact, on at least 2 occasions recently, we have been asked to waive the 75 day notice requirement so the hearing could be held even quicker.
Some good news, at least in Michigan.
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