Articles Tagged with Boston Social Security Disability Insurance

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At Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers, we are dedicated to keeping our clients and the community informed about significant changes to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. July and early August 2025 brought two significant developments that could have a substantial impact on current and future recipients. These changes include an expansion of the Compassionate Allowances list, which streamlines disability approvals, and a new overpayment recovery policy that could reduce monthly benefits by up to half for some recipients.

If you have questions about how these changes might affect your benefits, speaking with a knowledgeable social security disability lawyer can be invaluable. Our team can guide you through the application or appeals process, ensuring your rights and benefits are fully protected.

Faster Approvals Through Expanded Compassionate Allowances

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  • “Do you really think Social Security Disability Insurance is part of what people think of when they think of Social Security? I don’t think so.” – Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget’s director, May 2017
  • “Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts. Join the club. Who doesn’t get a little anxious for work every day and their back hurts?” -Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky), January 2015
  • “It’s hard to say what came first or caused the other, the population decline or increased (SSDI) usage. Or maybe economic stagnation caused both. Regardless, there seems to be at least at the county and regional level something like a disability tipping point.” -Sen. Tom Cotton, (R-AR), November 2015SSDI attorney

These are the kinds of justifications made by politicians aiming to slash the SSDI program, painting it as a welfare program for people who are simply too lazy to work. Of course, as our SSDI lawyers in Massachusetts know well, this is a common misconception that ignores the reality of the situation. Specifically, it ignores the fact that a person has to have worked for least five of the last 10 years in order to be eligible for SSDI, and further that the average disability recipient has worked 22 years prior to getting benefits. Continue reading

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The SSDI backlog is likely to worsen, even as there already exists an extensive wait for processing Social Security Disability Insurance claims, a new Bloomberg report speculates.woman-300x200

As it now stands, a typical appeal for an SSDI denial takes more than a year to be heard by an administrative law judge.

The president of the ALJ union told Bloomberg that people waiting to have their SSDI appeals heard are “desperate.” This is not an exaggeration, particularly when you consider that people are continuing to get older and sicker, in addition to more people incurring new injuries. Continue reading

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