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August is Back to School Month for families with school age children. The National Retail Federation (NRF) notes that consumers were cutting back on non-essential items or shopping sales in order to afford back to school supplies with the current inflation rate. For...
The Social Security Administration operates a Compassionate Allowance Program that identifies certain medical conditions that it will consider disabling. These conditions allow SSA to accelerate claims processing for disability. These medical conditions usually...
Recently a client inquiring about SSI (Supplemental Security Income) benefits asked me how people are supposed to live on the benefit. SSI is a disability or retirement program for low income individuals; many of whom do not have a work history or sufficient work...
The Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, passed the Senate last Sunday. The bill reduces drug spending by the federal government on Medicare. The bill allows Medicare to negotiate the price of certain high-cost medications, caps...
Catching COVID-19 a second or more time heightens one’s risk for contracting Long COVID. A recent Veterans Administration Health Study found that the risk of Long COVID increased with each subsequent re-infection. Long COVID symptoms include malaise, fatigue,...
Next year, Social Security disability beneficiaries may be able to earn a higher amount per month without it having an effect on their eligibility for benefits. This and other changes could be coming to the Social Security Administration as early as 2023. Experts...
Close to 14,500 students may have lost out on the Social Security disability and other benefits that they were eligible for due to internal agency errors. An investigation by the Social Security Administration finds that about 14,470 students were not paid the...
Researchers claim to have developed a tool that could, in the future, help create specific cells to reverse deafness or hearing loss. The dramatic breakthrough could in the future mean the elimination of a major problem in the fight to discover a tool to reverse...
For years, we have been warned about Social Security Disability Insurance claim numbers ballooning out of proportion. However, as recent data, shows disability insurance claim filings are actually on the decline, and have been so for several years. The number of...
Arthritis is one of the most commonly-cited causes of Social Security disability claims in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that as many as 58 million Americans suffer from arthritis. More than 23 million American arthritis...