Social Security Administration

Fourteen months ago, with no prior notice, the Social Security Administration made a big change in an obscure policy— and made it effective immediately. True, the change in the so-called “do-over” rule affected a relatively tiny number of ...  

WASHINGTON - Social Security's disability program is a political quagmire - and a metaphor for why federal spending and budget deficits are so difficult to control. The numbers are too big; the details, too complicated; and the choices, when faced, too ...  

More people than ever appealed their denied Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) claims to the hearing level last year, illustrating the need for representation with disability appeals, according to Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security ...  

USA TODAY's editorial "Disability claims swelling in recession" argued that the Social Security Disability Insurance system gives claimant representatives "a potent incentive to drag the process out, to the detriment of everyone but themselves.  

You probably already know that there was an increase in Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) monthly payments at the beginning of the year. If you receive monthly Social Security or SSI payments, you received a 3.6 percent cost ...