Author: lanewman | Posted: 3. August 2010 14:33
Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Michael J. Astrue announced August 2, 2010, the opening of SSA’s fifth and largest National Hearing Center (NHC) in St. Louis, Missouri. This facility is designed to assist the agency in improving its backlog of disability cases awaiting hearings. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 3. August 2010 14:10
House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) introduced HR 5987 known as Senior Protection Act 2010 on July 30, 2010. This bill is set to provide a means to pay a one-time $250 payment to senior citizens, retirees, disabled veterans and individuals with disabilities, in anticipation of no Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) being set in 2011. The COLA affects monthly benefit amounts payable to recipients of cash benefits from government programs including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans Administration Disability Pension and Compensation, and Railroad Retirement benefits. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 26. July 2010 14:46
The Commissioner of Social Security, Michael J. Astrue announced in a press release Friday July 23, 2010, that the Social Security Administration (SSA) has initiated legislation before Congress that would give the Commissioner the ability to control if or when federally paid state disability determination service employees are placed on furlough. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 26. July 2010 13:49
SSA seeks emergency clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to collect information from the estates of deceased recipients of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits that would allow the agency to release the deceased’s one time Economic Recovery Payment (ERP) of $250 to the estate upon request. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 22. July 2010 11:09
Public Consulting Group (PCG), a national leader is SSI/SSDI eligibility and enrollment services, and NTELX, a data-driven decision analytics firm, have partnered to help state and local child welfare, public assistance, and Medicaid agencies more efficiently identify and enroll eligible recipients and enroll candidates for federal Social Security benefits. By doing so, PCG and NTELX will allow cash-strapped agencies to generate additional federal revenue and control costs while providing welcome assistance to children and adults in need. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 20. July 2010 13:54
Administration (SSA) is a data collection effort being conducted by Mathematica Policy Research, in an effort to assist SSA in understanding the working needs of the disabled population. As part of a congressionally required study the survey is aimed at gathering data to document how well the Ticket to Work (TWW) program and other SSA programs help meet the needs of disability beneficiaries. While it focuses in part on SSA’s Ticket to Work Program, it also looks to document disabled beneficiaries conditions, work related goals and issues as well as their use of existing services and potentially unmet needs. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 15. July 2010 09:24
Improving the Transition for Foster Youth with Disabilities: A Regional Training to Promote Implementation of AB 1331 workshop held in Oakland, California on June 28, 2010, marked the first of several speaking engagements for Public Consulting Group’s (PCG) Social Security Advocacy Management staff. Topics in the workshop presented by PCG included screening and filing applicatons for the State's foster care children. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 12. July 2010 09:45
Social Security Administration (SSA) has passed a final rule which will now give the agency authority to schedule hearings for Administrative Law Judges for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) claims in those situations where it appears the ALJ has not scheduled enough hearings to meet SSA’s minimal standards for such employees. The passing of this rule, changes SSA’s current rules which placed the sole authority for all hearing scheduling with the individual ALJ and his/her office staff. [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 30. June 2010 10:43
Did you know that Social Security Administration (SSA) has a "Child Drop Out Exclusion" policy which allows a claimant to remove from his/her disability benefit computation those years when they were providing primary child care to their (or spouses') child under the age of three? [More]
Author: lanewman | Posted: 29. June 2010 11:36
Effective March 24, 2010 per Federal Register SSA revised their regulations to allow a representative payee who will no longer be serving in that capacity to transfer accumulated benefit payments and interest directly to a beneficiary if SSA determines that it would be in the best interest of the beneficiary. [More]
