As someone who has been employed for years and now has a disabling medical condition, you may have a strong claim for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Your condition is serious enough that you can't work any longer or you need help managing the...
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Social Security — Disability
What happens when a physical laborer suffers a job-ending injury?
Qualifying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits isn't easy. Not only is do you need to work for long enough to qualify, but you also have to have a medical condition that meets very strict standards. Most workers can only receive SSDI when they...
How can you determine if your condition qualifies for SSDI?
People usually don't bother learning much about Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) because they assume they will never need it. Only after they get diagnosed with a severe medical condition or suffer a debilitating injury do they start to wonder whether they...
The waiting game it takes in obtaining SSD benefits
Unable to work due to health constraints and struggling financially, you look for answers. Seeking Social Security disability (SSD) benefits seems like a logical option if you likely cannot work for at least a year or maybe even permanently. Among the more crucial...
In break from ’16 campaign promise, Trump looks to cut $10 billion from Social Security disability insurance benefits
A president's budget is sign of an administration's priorities, and President Trump's proposed budget bears no good news for America's disabled workers, seniors, children, and poor. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump signaled his...
Tom Margenau: “Gloom, but no doom, for Social Security”
You may have seen the front page headline screaming from the local newspaper on April 23 that Social Security "could go broke" by 2035. Well, here's longtime Social Security public information officer Tom Margenau, who has been down this road before, explaining why we...
Relief sought for all same-sex spouses denied equal access to Social Security survivor’s benefits
In November 2018, Tucson attorneys and Autumn Menard, along with co-counsel Lambda Legal, filed a lawsuit against Social Security on behalf of Michael Ely, then a 65-year-old gay widower, who was denied spousal survivor's benefits despite...
“Ignorant” and “wacky” theories about Social Security baffle benefits expert
Several times a year, Tom Margenau takes on the worst of the worst myths about Social Security and debunks them in his syndicated column, "Social Security and You", which is published locally every Sunday in the Arizona Daily Star.Margenau's February 13, 2019 column...
Gay widower sues Social Security Administration over denied spousal benefits
Attorneys and Autumn Menard, along with co-counsel Lambda Legal, recently filed a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on behalf of Michael Ely, a...
GOP 2019 Budget Would Slash $537 Billion from Medicare, Threaten Most Vulnerable
The U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee passed a GOP 2019 Budget Plan along party-lines that would cut $537 billion from Medicare and cause $2.6 trillion in reductions to programs which help economically vulnerable Americans.The GOP Chairman of the Budget...