Are Social Security Judges giving away disability benefits?
Author: Cheryl Coon Recently, I was asked whether I agreed with a General Accounting Office (GAO) report, prepared at the request of a congressional subcommittee,…
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Car-Doored AGAIN? The Law is on Your Side!
It is always a pleasure to find out that the law is in our favor when bicyclists have a conflict on the road with motorists.…
Read More Cynthia Newton Presents at the Oregon Mediation Association's 2014 Annual Meeting
Cynthia F. Newton presented "A Litigator's Perspective: 10 Helpful Things Effective Mediators Do" at the Oregon Mediation Association's 2014 Annual Meeting in Portland on November…
Read More Potentially Breakthrough Findings for Individuals with ME/Chronic Fatigue
Two recent studies — one from investigators at Stanford a few weeks ago and another from a Japanese research team published earlier this year —…
Read More Applying for a mortgage as a disability recipient
As I discussed in my recent post about Continuing Disability Reviews, for people receiving disability benefits there is never a guarantee that you will continue…
Read More Once again, the "scandal" is in who is turned down, not who is approved
According to a forthcoming report from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general, Social Security judges awarded disability benefits for 25,000 people who should not have…
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