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Social Security Held its Value Better Than Your 401K
Posted on May 15, 2009As the the Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund found, the Social Security (SSA) funds are secure thru 2037. This is a slight fall from the prior 2041, but it IS three decades out. And how’s your 401K? Cnn comares the two: “The 2009 Social Security Trustees report released Tuesday provides [...
With 401K’s Disappearing, Social Security Retirement’s Solid Value Becomes Clear
Posted on May 15, 2009From Today’s New York Times, here’s an interesting reminder about the core value of the Social Security system, in an era of disappearing private retirement programs: The availability, stability and value of traditional defined benefit pensions are diminished...
Obama Calls for Increased Scrutiny of Disability Programs
Posted on May 12, 2009From NASDAQ Online: Doctors and patients, including those collecting disability payments, would get a closer look from federal officials under the budget plan issued by the Obama administration on Thursday. Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget includes increased funding to attack waste, fraud and abuse in federal health and disability programs, an area where the administration estimates [...
Does SSA terminate Benefits Fast Enough When Work Resumes?
Posted on May 12, 2009From Charles T. Hall’s blog on disability law: Congressman John S. Tanner (D-TN), Chairman, Subcommittee on Social Security, today announced a hearing on the Social Security Administration?s (SSA?s) employment support programs for disability beneficiaries, including the Ticket to Work Program...
Special One-time Payments to Social Security and SSI Recipients
Posted on January 26, 2009The President’s radio address yesterday proposed a one time payment to the disabled and elderly, an aspect of the $825-billion stimulus plan being put together by the Obama administration and Congress Seniors, disabled and veterans: $300 payments to Social Security beneficiaries, and $300 payments under the Supplemental Security income program for elderly and disabled people [...
Obama’s Weekly YouTube/Radio Address Today
Posted on January 25, 2009President Obama’s weekly address today discusses his plans for economic stimulus plan - needed to help get people back to work. The process of rebuilding and retrofitting America is needed ASAP - skeptics are invited to hold him accountable. See YouTube Link to address now...
Economic Free Fall: Who Thinks We Should Revisit Privatization?
Posted on January 25, 2009If there is one recurring nightmare for Social Security attorneys who study the question, it is the idea of privatizing Social Security. How anyone can even dream that this is a good idea after the performance of the stock market in 2008 is beyond most of us...
When an SSA Overpayment Notice Arrives at Your Door
Posted on January 20, 2009It is a gloomy day for anyone who receives a notice of overpayment from Social Security (SSA). It can be just a misunderstanding, or something more serious. If the government thinks you have received too much money - that is what this term really means - then you must quickly set about [...
Medicare and Medicaid - Can These Programs Take Up the Slack in Medical coverage?
Posted on January 19, 2009The LA Times reports that most states are slashing health services to their poorest residents amid the economic downturn. This is happening in the face of President Obama’s push for Universal Health Care. As more people experience reduced income, states’ personal and business income tax revenue falls, and state budgets nationwide [...
Obama on CBS: Time to Get Entitlement Programs Under Control
Posted on January 17, 2009In a far-ranging CBS Interview, the new president promises a detailed review of all entitlement programs, code for Social Security and Medicare. While I think there is waste in these programs that needs attention, I hope the reviews find it in the administrative aspects of the programs, and in medical cost-accounting...
Petagon Says It Takes PTSD Seriously
Posted on January 12, 2009Last week, news stories reported that veterans with PTSD would be inelegible for the Purple Heart, setting off a storm of commentary about the “value” to the military of PTSD and other invisble wounds . More recently the military spokepersons assure us that all wounded vets are honored and treated...
Wikipedia Provides Extensive Information about Social Security
Posted on January 11, 2009Who’d ever think to consult Wikipedia for information about the Social Security Administration? Actually, there is a readable and useful article in that venerable online resource - a little history, a view of the scope of the agency, all in all a good overview...
Unacknowledged Toxins Threaten Veterans’ Health
Posted on January 10, 2009Oregon and Indiana Veterans report ongoing health problems from exposure to toxins generated by US Contractor in Iraq: “Early in the Iraq war, Oregon Army National Guard soldiers say they encountered environmental disaster in oil fields. Now it’s clear a deadly toxin also swirled in the desert air...
Obama Takes Aim at Social Security to Help Reduce Deficit
Posted on January 08, 2009From today’s Boston Globe, a story about the devastating deficits we face, and the new president’s ideas for facing them down: “Pointing with concern to “red ink as far as the eye can see,” President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to tackle Social Security and Medicare as a central part of his effort to control federal spending [...
SSA Creates More User-Friendly Online Application
Posted on January 07, 2009Social Security today announced that they are presenting o simplified online application. The AP reports: “The Social Security Administration, envisaging the near-future prospect of 10,000 baby boomers applying for benefits every day, has put together a new online service that will allow people to get their benefits without ever traveling to a Social Security field [...
The Oregonian Posts a Database of Social Security’s Most Productive Judges
Posted on January 06, 2009All of us are aware of the unprecedented backlogs at the disability hearing offices around the country - Atlanta is the worst with waits just under 1000 days — and that after a claimant goes thru preliminary levels of appeal that can cost a year’s time...
How Are Social Security Benefits Taxed?
Posted on January 03, 2009If you’ve ever wondered whether disability benefits are taxed - or how - here is a great article that explains all the ramifications of these payments. Follow the link at the end to see the full article. It comes from the extensive web site maintained by the National Organization of Social Security representatives: [...
Social Security Site Allows You to Calculate Benefits
Posted on December 31, 2008The official Social Security website gives valuable information that allows you to estimate your retirement benefit — this figure will also be approximately what you would draw as a disabled person. Your retiremnet entitlement stays in the fund until you retire, unless you become disabled before retirement age...
“Disability Secrets” Site Provides Extensive Info
Posted on December 31, 2008This site has an amazing depth of information on many aspects of Social Security disability law. I like this link, which gives a list of specific tips on applying and appealing, See link here:
Staffing Shortages Cause Hearing Waits, Say Oregonian Investigative Reporters
Posted on December 31, 2008In this week’s (Portland) Oregonian, investigative reporters search out the causes of the enormous backlogs in waits for hearings. Rare interviews with sitting judges reveal the staffing shortages that keep them from being fully productive: The slow pace of a few judges and an overwhelmed staff at Portland?s Social Security hearing office are key [...
The Invisible World of Brain Injuries
Posted on December 29, 2008Here’s a window into the invisible world of those with brain injuries, a touching story from the Ventura County Star in California: …”It really just has to do with the degree of brain injury, said Dr. James Herman, a neurosurgeon at Ventura County Medical Center...
With 401K’s Disappearing, Social Security Retirement’s Solid Value Becomes Clear
Posted on December 29, 2008From Today’s New York Times, here’s an intersting reminder about the core value of the Social Security system, in an era of disappearing private retirement programs: The availability, stability and value of traditional defined benefit pensions are diminished...
Vets Still Wait for Expedited Disability Claims
Posted on December 23, 2008There was nothing dramatic about how Spc. Cristapher Zuetlau’s career in the Army came to an end: he stepped in a hole. But the damage to the tank crewman’s wrenched back was so brutal he can barely walk. The Army agreed he was no longer fit to serve, but in doing so determined his disability was [...
New York Times: The Year in New Ideas for Retirement
Posted on December 23, 2008Teresa Ghilarducci, an economist at the New School for Social Research, has emerged as the primary exponent of ?Guaranteed Retirement Accounts,? or G.R.A.?s. The way they work is simple: workers who don?t have access to a conventional defined-benefit plan would contribute 2...
Wait Two Years for Medicare if You’re Disabled
Posted on December 23, 2008Newsweek reports: (WASHINGTON) Master toolmaker John McClain built machine parts with details so small they couldn’t be seen with the naked eye. Then a lump on his neck turned out to be cancer. Shalonda Frederick managed a bakery, and decorated cakes for special occasions...
Social Security Will Use Electronic Screening for Disability Cases
Posted on December 23, 2008The Social Security Administration will begin using the Nationwide Health Information Network in early 2009 to evaluate disability claims, according to an agency announcement released Dec. 16. NHIN is designed to connect providers, consumers and others involved in health care...
SSA Proposes Streamlined Processing of Claims to Reduce Backlogs
Posted on November 11, 2008As baby boomers reach their most disability-prone years, the SSA has seen its disability workload grow significantly in the last five years. In order to speed up and improve the quality of the disability determination process, the agency intends to ensure that individuals who are clearly disabled receive a decision within 20 calendar days of [...
TV station in North and South Carolina Investigates Delays
Posted on November 07, 2008Viewers in our area filing for Social Security Disability insurance benefits and waiting years for answers. Sadly, some die before they even get a final answer from the government. So what?s being done to help and how is the backlog here, one of the worst in the country, getting reduced? Talk about waiting...
Does Anyone Still Want Privatized Social Security?
Posted on November 06, 2008US News and World Report asks the question. Many retirees who have reduced spending power because of depleted 401(k) accounts are thankful that President Bush’s plan to partially privatize Social Security was never realized. But the debate over personal Social Security accounts rages on...
2009 COLA’s Announced, 5.8% Increase for Social Security Recipients
Posted on November 01, 2008THe Wall Street Journal reports that more than 55 million Americans will see a 5.8% boost in their Social Security benefits in 2009, the largest jump in 27-years and a development that could add more than $200 billion to federal spending over the next decade...
Fast Track “Compassionate Allowances” for Disability cases
Posted on November 01, 2008Social Security has that announced it will fast-track applications for Social Security disability for applicants with any of 25 rare diseases and 25 cancers whose medical conditions are very severe. Currently, many people with rare diseases experience devastating delays when they apply for Social Security assistance because those making the decisions are not familiar with [...
Top Disability Insurer Cheated Social Security, Boston Federal Jury Says
Posted on November 01, 2008By ROBERT WOODMAN MCSHERRY, Andrews Publications Staff Writer UnumProvident Corp., America’s leading private disability insurer, defrauded the Social Security Administration on disability claims, a Boston federal court jury has found following a bellwether trial...
Stories of Rare Diseases Sought for Social Security Administration
Posted on November 01, 2008The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) reports that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is seeking input from both physicians and patients on rare diseases. The SSA conducted hearings last December as part of an effort to better understand rare diseases so that patients will encounter fewer delays and frustrations when they apply for Social [...
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Congressional Hearings Address Backlogs at Hearing Offices
Posted on September 17, 2008The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security will hold a hearing Tuesday morning to look at what is -- and isn't being done -- to reduce the incredibly backlog of Social Security disability cases...Currently the nation's Social Security disability insurance program is struggling under a severe case backlog...
New Debit Cards Offered to Replace Checks for Benefits
Posted on September 05, 2008The Department of the Treasury said Thursday that nearly 2 million Social Security recipients in 12 Western states will receive information this month about the option of receiving their Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits via a prepaid debit card...
Debit Cards for Social Security Benefits
Posted on August 27, 2008Social Security recipients can now get monthly payments on a prepaid debit card. The Direct Express Debit MasterCard is being rolled out in 10 states by the Treasury Department and Dallas-based Comerica Bank. It's an alternative to paper checks and direct deposit...
Milwaukee Hearing Delays Dismal
Posted on August 25, 2008The claimant's file is among a stack of more than 762,000 disability cases pending nationally in the Social Security Administration. The agency has been plagued with a growing backlog in the past decade as it struggles to handle more retirement and disability cases...
Candidates Skate Thin Ice on Social Security Reform
Posted on August 14, 2008From today's New York Times: Party elders and analysts who have seen many a politician fall victim to the jinx of Social Security, which was signed into law 73 years ago Thursday, say they are not surprised. ?All you have to do is open your mouth and you?re dead meat,? said Bill Frenzel, a [...
Fight to the Death: Getting Disability Benefits in Oregon
Posted on August 02, 2008Today's Oregonian reports: Americans seeking Social Security?s disability benefits find themselves stuck in a morass of bureacracy that often takes years to navigate. Social Security officials say they?re working hard to remedy the backlog. But they acknowledge it?ll be years before they bring it under control...
SSA Provides Online Calculator for Disability and Retirement Benefits
Posted on July 21, 2008The AP reports today at the San Francisco Chronicle, www.sfgate.com: People planning for retirement got a new tool this week: a fast and easy online estimator for their Social Security benefits. The retirement benefit is usually the same as the amount paid for Social Security Disability...
Florida Legislator Introduces Bill to Reduce Social Security Backlogs
Posted on July 17, 2008U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL) called a press conference, Monday, to announce legislation to expedite the Social Security Administration disability claims process. Thousands of Tampa Bay area families are caught in a multi-year backlog. Steadily lengthening delays in the resolution of Social Security disability claims have left hundreds of thousands of people in a kind of [...
US Supreme Court Reins in LTD Carriers
Posted on July 14, 2008The Christian Science Monitor reports on new Supreme Court Ruling: Judges must approach medical disability and health insurance disputes with a skeptical eye when they involve insurance companies that both evaluate and pay employee claims. In a 6 to 3 decision announced Thursday, the US Supreme Court ruled that benefit denials by such companies must be [...
Banks Improperly Garnishing Social Security Deposits
Posted on July 13, 2008Administration's Office of the Inspector General. The inspector general found that some financial institutions are apparently violating federal law by garnishing accounts that receive electronic deposits of old age, survivors and disability insurance, and/or supplemental security income payments...
Chicago Tribune and Indy Star Report Extreme Delays in Indiana
Posted on July 07, 2008The Chicago Tribune reports on Sunday Story in the Indianapolis Star: Indiana residents unable to work because of medical or psychiatric ills are forced to wait far longer than most Americans for disability payments, putting them at greater risk of losing their cars or homes...
Waahington Post: Myth Busters About the Solvency of Social Security
Posted on July 04, 2008...Even at the peak of boomer retirement, around 2030, most of the population will still be of prime working age, between 20 and 64. The percentage -- about 55, according to the Social Security Administration -- will be lower than it is today (59), but above the levels of the 1960s and '70s, when it [...
Double Dipping Judge Blamed for Backlogs
Posted on June 23, 2008This judge is blamed for the backlogs in Atlanta. Maybe the better story is that he says he was one of the office's most productive judges. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A judge can be removed from his civilian job for double-dipping. Social Security has also filed papers to recover more than $309,000 in back [...
Depatment of Justice OK’s Benefits for Children of Disabled Parents in Civil Unions
Posted on June 19, 2008MONTPELIER ? The federal government has ruled that the Social Security Administration must extend benefits to the children of partners in same-sex unions even if the parent is not biologically related. The U.S. Department of Justice opinion was in response to a case involving a Vermont couple...
Disability Recipients Have till October to File for Stimulus Rebate
Posted on June 10, 2008Even those individuals who have little or no tax liability may qualify for a minimum payment of $300 ($600 if filing a joint return) if their tax return reflects $3,000 or more in qualifying income, which consists of earned income (e.g., wages, net self-employment income) as well as Social Security or certain Railroad Retirement benefits [...
Chronic Fatigue: More Evidence That it’s Real
Posted on June 01, 2008Frm today's New York Times: For decades, people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome have struggled to convince doctors, employers, friends and even family members that they were not imagining their debilitating symptoms. Skeptics called the illness ?yuppie flu? and ?shirker syndrome...
You Pay In, You get Paid, Right?
Posted on May 26, 2008SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It seems simple enough: you pay for Social Security disability insurance out of every paycheck. Then, if you get hurt and can't work, you collect that money. But more and more people are finding they can't always get what they've paid for -- at least not very easily...
Buffalo Delays: Same Story, Different City
Posted on May 22, 2008From The Buffalo News: Karen Furman?s son, Kelvin, was 10 when she applied to get federal income assistance for parents with disabled children. Kelvin is now 14, living in a group home and still waiting for the government to decide if he?s disabled. The Buffalo Social Security hearing office, where Furman filed her claim, [...
Immigration Bill Requres Social Security Verification for All Jobs
Posted on May 20, 2008In Today's Kansas City Star: For critics, it?s an Orwellian nightmare: the government signing off on every single hiring decision made in the United States. For backers, it?s the only logical way to discourage illegal immigrants, one using the nation?s only existing, all-encompassing ? and currently flawed ? database to block unlawful employment entering the [...
Applictions Up, Approvals Down
Posted on May 13, 2008.... The number of workers applying for SSDI disability payments increased to 2.2 million in 2007, 2.6% more that in 2006, while the number of disabled workers approved for payments declined to 37.6 percent, the lowest approval rate in the history of the program...
What Social Security is NOT Meant To Do
Posted on May 12, 2008A New York Times Editorial: ....forcing Social Security to take on the enormous burden of immigration enforcement would be a harmful diversion from its core mission and could strain the bureaucracy to the breaking point. That would have frightening implications for millions of people who are supposed to be served by the Social Security Administration, particularly the [...
What do Social Security Numbers Tell You?
Posted on May 06, 2008From Kathleen Pender in today's San Francisco Chronicle: ...How does the government assign these numbers? Is there anything you can tell about a person from his or her number? And in using the last two digits, is the IRS favoring one group over another? It turns out that the first three digits - called the area number [...
Social Security Delays of Disability Claims Violate Due Process Rights
Posted on April 24, 2008Today's The American Civil Liberties Union newsletter commends the House Ways and Means Committee for holding a hearing today on the backlog of Social Security disability claims. The ACLU has submitted a written statement to the committee. Social Security disability backlogs are at an all-time high, with the average wait time lasting 499 days and [...
Delays in Dallas
Posted on April 23, 2008Bob Kraft's blog reoprts on Average Processing Times For Social Security Disability Claims: The list of the most recently available average processing times for Social Security disability claims throughout the nation has been published by NOSSCR. The Dallas and Forth Worth offices rank closer to the top than to the bottom, but processing times across [...
Compassionate Allowances: Some Progress on Delays
Posted on April 23, 2008Fayetteville, New York (WSYR-TV) - If you get so sick or injured that you can?t work anymore, Social Security disability kicks in. But it may take a few months for benefits to go into effect. Currently, it takes nearly three months just to process disability applications...
Doctors’ Group Reports Pressure to Downplay Injuries
Posted on April 23, 2008From today's Charlotte Observer: A leading group of occupational doctors is taking the unusual step of speaking out publicly against pressure from companies to downplay workplace injuries. To outline their concerns, the physicians have sent a letter to federal workplace safety regulators and held a conference session in New York City on Monday...
Annual Farce: Social Security Running Out of Money
Posted on April 07, 2008Reports that the Social Security system will soon run out of money have been greatly exaggerated. As surely as day follows night, the annual report from the board of trustees of the OASDI fund (Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance, otherwise known as Social Security) has brought forth alarms that the fund will run out [...
Insurance Companies Clog Social Security System
Posted on April 01, 2008The Social Security system is choking on paperwork and spending millions of dollars a year screening dubious applications for disability benefits, according to lawsuits filed by whistle-blowers. Jessica Ortiz of San Diego said her disability insurer called more than 10 times after she was hurt in a car crash, insisting that she apply for Social Security...
Social Security Delays Cheat the Vulnerable
Posted on March 25, 2008From the Kansas City Star: For years you?ve paid insurance premiums to protect yourself against unforeseen health problems. Yet when an accident or serious illness strikes, the insurer refuses to pay up. That?s essentially theft, the kind of thing people expect the government to step in and stop...
Losing Disability Credits: When Women Leave the Workforce
Posted on March 17, 2008individual who earned credits 20 years ago may find that not all of them count. For example, consider the case of a 42-year-old woman who worked full-time from age 21 to 31 and thus earned 40 credits. She has twice the number of credits required to receive benefits if she becomes disabled at age 32...
Extensive Media Coverage of Backlogs at Hearing Offices
Posted on March 12, 2008With waiting times ranging up into the 1000+ /day range in a few Hearing Offices, the backlog time has drawn extensive media coverage as the human suffering involved in these delays comes to light. Our national association of Social Security lawyers has posted this link, listing numerous TV, radio and newspaper stories on this [...
Social Security Benefit: Why It’s So Valuable
Posted on March 08, 2008Critics of Social Security and some of its friends often ask why its return on our investment, the years of payroll deductions, is so small. That would be a fair question if Social Security were an investment program, but it's not. It's more than that, much more...
Social Security Hires 144 New Judges
Posted on March 03, 2008Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that the agency has begun making offers to 144 of the 175 new Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) it will hire this fiscal year. Due to litigation and budget cuts, the agency has about ten percent fewer ALJs than it did a decade ago...
Disability Income Qualfies for Tax Rebates
Posted on February 25, 2008... If you didn't owe federal income tax for 2007, you can still get a rebate of $300 (single) or $600 (married filing jointly) if you and/or your spouse had at least $3,000 in what the IRS calls qualifying income. Qualifying income includes earnings from a job or self-employment, certain Social Security benefits, certain railroad retirement [...
Social Security: Some Surprising Benefits
Posted on February 17, 2008See this article in today's Baltimore Sun, discussing all the ways Social Security protects us: ....The program will provide financial support to your spouse and young children if you die early. It is disability insurance if you are seriously injured...
Coalition Calls For More SSA Funding
Posted on February 13, 2008The American Federation of Government Employees and advocacy groups representing progressives and senior citizens called on Congress Tuesday to increase funding for the Social Security Administration and to pass legislation that would give lawmakers greater oversight of the agency's staff levels, office closures and budgets...
Washington Post: SSA Budget Inadequate
Posted on February 06, 2008Today's Post reports on the effects of President Bush's proposed budget: ...But it may take more than that. It's clear that many federal programs can only run smoothly when properly staffed. Take Social Security. In recent years, the agency's field offices have lost staff, and waiting times for the public have increased...
Commissioner Feels Your Pain
Posted on February 05, 2008Michael Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security: I know from personal experience how difficult Social Security?s disability process can be. When my father was 52, he suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage caused by a rare form of brain cancer. As I took care of the application for him, it opened my eyes to the complicated [...
Senate Tries to Make Disablity Recipients Eligible for Tax Rebates
Posted on January 29, 2008If you had no earned income and no tax liability in 2007, you would get no refund under the existing proposal. However, the Senate is trying to amend the bill so senior citizens living off Social Security could get a refund. See Kathleen Pender's Column here:
Ray of Hope for Disability Reform?
Posted on January 19, 2008The Cleveland Plain Dealer Editoriailzes Today: After nearly four years, Social Security disability applicants can be forgiven for being cynical about the latest pledges to end the backlog that keeps their cases in limbo. This time, however, there is a ray of hope that the reforms will work...
Disability Backlog Must be Cut to Brace for Boomers
Posted on January 18, 2008The Social Security Administration is making progress in reducing its backlog of disability claims, but without more resources, it will like fall further behind as aging boomers overwhelm the system, Comptroller General David Walker said. SSA needs more funding from Congress and it needs to hire more staff, Walker said...
CBS News Continues its Investigative Report on Denials
Posted on January 17, 2008CBS reports: "It's a very tough standard," said Michael Astrue, commissioner of the Social Security Administration. "And you can argue whether that should be the standard or not, but I'm stuck with that." A two-month CBS News Investigation uncovered a system whose own standards have been called into question - a federal agency reeling [...
CBS Study Show 16,000 have Died Waiting for Benefits
Posted on January 15, 2008Disability Pay Rejections A two-month CBS News investigation has revealed that many individuals who are disabled are either being rejected or waiting years for a decision on benefits. Armen Keteyian reports. CBS found that 16,000 people have died waiting for disability during the past three years...
Home Lost Waiting for Disability Benefits
Posted on January 14, 2008He laments that he would have been able to keep the house had he received monthly checks from Social Security Disability Insurance. He first applied four years ago, then applied again, then again through a hearing, then through an appeal. His is one of 26,820 disability cases that are pending in Indiana -- and more than [...
Refugees Out in the Cold
Posted on January 12, 2008A New York Times Editorial today reports that thousands of elderly and disabled refugees who have found safety in the United States in recent years may soon find out just how cold and equivocal America?s welcome can be. These vulnerable newcomers are subject to a federal law that cuts off their disability benefits if they [...
US to Impose Limits on State Medicaid Programs
Posted on January 04, 2008The New York TImes Reports: The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes who, the administration argues, may have access to private health insurance...
Internet-Based Therapy Promising for Vets with PTSD
Posted on January 03, 2008Internet-based cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shows promise, according to a pilot study in the November issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry. The study found that 25 percent of U.S. military personnel assigned to an Internet-based, eight-week program of self-management CBT no longer had PTSD diagnosis after treatment or at [...
January 1, 2008: Many Numbers Shift for Social Security Payments and Deductions
Posted on December 29, 2007Social Security changes many of its payments, financial eligibility standards and taxes each year. This link to the Social Security web site sets out all the changes that will take place January 1, 2008. Click here to go to ssa.gov
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