As you may have already heard, a Social Security Administration (SSA) administrative law judge (ALJ) was accused to have been of sexually harassing his co-workers at the agency and writing derogatory things about Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits claimants when denying their applications. Following these accusations that came as…
O’Connor-Spinner v. Colvin, a case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, involves a claimant who was suffering from a degenerative disk disease, severe sleep apnea, restrictive lung disease, obesity, and depression. In this case, unlike many other Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) appeals, there was no…
As discussed in a recent news feature from ABC News, the United States Social Security Administration (SSA) will subject a claimant to review process at certain intervals following an award of disability benefits. While in most cases it is just a scheduled or even random review, in some cases the…
U.S. soldiers may be eligible for a number of benefits related to injuries suffered in the course of their service. They should not overlook the possibility of securing SSDI. In Hensley v. Colvin, a case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, claimant is a combat veteran who served…
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits are not always easy to come by. In Cole v. Colvin, as case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, claimant worked as a welder in 2000 when he was injured in an accident. The accident resulted in him breaking his left arm…
When people talk about Social Security, they are often talking about the benefits you get when you reach the designated age of retirement. This age of retirement is determined by the year in which you were born, because Congress has raised the retirement age on sliding scale several times over…
The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to some 60 million people, including 43 million retired workers and their dependents, 6 million who have survived deceased workers and another 11 million disabled workers and their dependents. That last category is known as Social Security Disability Insurance, or SSDI. A recent…
The Social Security Administration’s growing backlog of disability cases has ballooned in recent years, from about 695,000 in 2010 to more than 1.1 million in 2016. According to the Office of the Inspector General, that means the average processing time on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) hearings went from 415…
Recipients of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in Boston know what an uphill battle it can be to secure payments. What they may not realize is that once benefits are obtained, that isn’t the end of the story. The fact is, all SSDI benefits claims are periodically reviewed upon…
We have been hearing a lot about guns in the news lately. Following the horrific shooting at the Orlando nightclub, many have renewed their fight to ban assault weapons. There are, of course, those on the other side who feel that there should be not be any restrictions on the…