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Elaine Clark began receiving Social Security Disability Insurance in 1996 when she was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease. In January of that year, retroactive to January 2005, the Social Security Administration unlawfully stopped paying her benefits based on an outstanding warrant.. READ MORE
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Category Archives: Social Security
NSCLC Supports Rebuild America Act
In a letter to Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chair of the Committee on health, Education , Labor and Pensions, NSCLC strongly endorsed the Rebuild America Act mainly because of its embrace of the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers for determining … Continue reading
Posted in Social Security, Supplemental Security Income
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Table Helps Calculate Medicaid Eligibility Under Pickle Amendment
Dec. 5, 2011 - Social Security announced this fall for the first time since 2009 that there will be a cost of living adjustment in Social Security and SSI benefits effective January 1. This adjustment will affect the calculation of Pickle … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid, Social Security
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Treasury Rules Governing Garnishment of Directly Deposited Benefits
Effective May 1, 2011, rules went into effect governing garnishment from accounts into which certain exempt federal benefits are directly deposited. The new rules are designed to assure the account holder of uninterrupted access to at two months worth of … Continue reading
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Policy Issue Brief: Does the Social Security COLA Need to be Changed?
(6/30/11) As policymakers debate changing the cost of living adjustment, NSCLC recommends a switch to the CPI-E as the basis for calculating the COLA for Social Security, veterans and other federal benefits. READ THE BRIEF
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Increasing the Social Security Retirement Age Cuts Benefits and Drives Up Administrative Costs
This policy Issue Brief discusses the serious long-term negative impact of increasing the Social Security retirement age. Read the Issue Brief: Increasing the Social Security Retirement Age Cuts Benefits and Drives Up Administrative Costs.
Social Security & Federal Checks Must Be Direct Deposited
With some exceptions, if someone applies for federal benefits on or after May 1, 2011, they must receive all checks through direct deposit from now on. The Department of the Treasury has promulgated a final regulation [75 Fed. Reg. 80315 … Continue reading
What is Direct Express?
DIRECT EXPRESS DEBIT CARDS Since 2008, people receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits who do not have a bank account have had the option of receiving benefits in the form of a prepaid debit card instead of … Continue reading
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Social Security Cuts Would Hurt Low-Income Older Adults
Statement of Paul Nathanson National Senior Citizens Law Center SOCIAL SECURITY CUTS WOULD HURT LOW INCOME OLDER ADULTS WASHINGTON –The National Senior Citizens Law Center is concerned that proposals contained in the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform report to … Continue reading
Social Security Modernization: Options to Address Solvency and Benefit Adequacy
On May 18, 2010, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging released a new committee report. Click here to access the report.
Social Security Administration Retreats from “Unknowing Flight” Doctrine and Will Pay Hundreds of Millions in Back Benefits
This article in the Clearinghouse REVIEW Journal of Poverty Law and Policy has details of the Martinez settlement.
