Because May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month, we decided to discuss the disease for this week's impairment focus figure. According to the national Skin Cancer Foundation, skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States, with 3.5 million cases in over...
Several months ago, we wrote about the Social Security Administration's impending move to electronic payments, which was part of an overall government effort to discontinue all government benefit payments by check. According to the United States Department of the...
In the years since the creation of the Social Security Disability program, the list of impairments that qualify for benefits has been greatly expanded. In the program's earliest years, only people with debilitating physical disorders qualified for SSD benefits. Now,...
When an applicant for Social Security Disability is denied benefits, he or she has the option of appealing that decision. That process entails a hearing before an administrative law judge who is employed by the Social Security Administration. While the appeals process...
For many years, patients who went to their doctors complaining of severe fatigue, trouble concentrating, and memory problems were quickly dismissed by medical professionals. Called lazy, complainers, and hypochondriacs, medical professionals told patients that their...
In a dramatic last minute save, the United States Congress was able to come together last Friday night and work out a budget compromise, successfully averting a shutdown of the federal government. Under the new budget deal, which governs the remainder of the 2011...
Social Security Disability (SSD) was created to provide financial security for Americans who were unable to work because of debilitating physical disorders. In the years that followed, the Social Security Administration gradually relaxed its standards and continually...
As Congress struggles to find a middle ground on its hotly-debated budget bill, there is a very real possibility that the continuing back-and-forth will have a negative effect on millions of Americans. If lawmakers are not able to reach an agreement by midnight...
Today, workers at several California Social Security Administration (SSA) offices will participate in informational picket lines outside local Social Security office buildings. The picket lines are part of a statewide protest of the proposed federal budget cuts that,...
In recent years, the number of Americans receiving Social Security Disability has skyrocketed in California and throughout the country, jumping from 6.6 million beneficiaries in 2000 to 10.2 million beneficiaries in 2010. While this is not to suggest that those...
