Category: Social Security


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Bureaucracy prevents the poor and homeless from accessing disability benefits

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 A report released today by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty shows that bureaucratic barriers are preventing thousands of…

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The Tattered Safety Net

The Washington Post recently ran an editorial responding to those who have read about the imminent crisis in funding for Social Security -- and chosen…

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Online Social Security Statements - A Step Forward or Discrimination against Americans without Internet access?

For an interesting discussion of the negative side of putting social security information, including disability benefit information, online, see:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/us-column-miller-socialsecurityonline-idUSBRE8491DN20120510

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Social Security Judges Not Allowed to Look at your Facebook Page

In an interesting twist on the otherwise claimant-hostile atmosphere at the Social Security Administration (SSA),  administrative law judges who hear disability cases have been told…

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Most Workers Lack Private Disability Insurance, Survey Finds

Two-thirds of Americans working in the private sector do not have private disability insurance, leaving them only Social Security disability as their safety net if…

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Social Security Information is Finally Available Online!

SSA has just made available online the following information: Estimates of the retirement and disability benefits you may receive; Estimates of benefits your family may…

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