Posts filed under: Social Security

Feb. 11, 2010
The Wall Street Journal
Social Security to Expand Fast-Track System
People with early-onset Alzheimer's disease and 37 other medical conditions should get federal disability checks more quickly under an expansion of the Social Security Administration's fast-track system, the agency said Thursday.
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Jan. 27, 2010
Olympia (Wash.) Newswire
Governor, legislator disagree on disability reform
He’s played in countries all over the world and in all 50 states. He’s appeared on “The David Letterman Show” and can be heard furiously playing his spoons on Frank Zappa’s “Civilization Phaze III.”
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Filed Under: healthcare, public policy, Social Security

Jan. 17, 2010
ABC News
Health Overhaul Leaves Gap for Disabled Workers
Disabled by chronic back pain and unable to afford medical insurance, Lea Walker hoped President Barack Obama's health care overhaul would close a coverage gap that has trapped her and millions of other workers.
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Jan. 10, 2010
The Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review
Ill teen fights for Social Security
Jacob Walk is blind in his right eye and deaf in his left ear, and chances are he’ll eventually lose all sight and hearing.
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Jan. 6, 2010
Federal Times
Judge orders halt to Calif. furlough of Social Security employees
A California judge has declared the furloughing of state Social Security Administration employees "arbitrary, capricious and unlawful" and ordered the state to stop the furloughs.
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Dec. 17, 2009
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
More Texans apply for Social Security Disability Insurance -- and wait
Ray Shuga, a retired truck driver in Fort Worth, twiddled his thumbs for about two years between the time he applied for Social Security Disability Insurance and the arrival of his first check.
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Filed Under: employment, Social Security

Dec. 17, 2009
MSNBC
Job losses send disability claims soaring
ELKHART, Ind.— With an aching shoulder and sore hip, Michael Spratt figured he’d have to apply for disability benefits someday. He just didn’t think that day would come so soon.
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Dec. 13, 2009
USA Today
Benefits backlog stalls millions in need
Millions of Americans are waiting longer for unemployment checks, disability payments and food stamps as states furlough workers who process the benefits.
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Nov. 22, 2009
The (Delaware) News Journal
Social Security disability claims denied more often in Delaware
Pain has cut short the work lives of hundreds of people in Delaware. Edna Jopson drove a school bus and waited tables but now wakes in the morning just long enough to take pain-killers and go back to bed. Joe Jones rehabilitated houses until stopped by back trouble, knee surgery and schizophrenia. Myrna Gonzalez taught preschool before knotted shoulder muscles, osteoporosis, debilitating headaches, slipped discs, diabetes and myriad other health problems made that impossible.
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Nov. 20, 2009
Federal News Radio 1500 AM (Washington, D.C.)
Social Security disability claims progress threatened by state furloughs
For the Social Security Administration, significant progress in fixing one long-standing problem is being threatened by recession-based, state government funding crises.
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