"SSI beneficiaries face the most severe levels of poverty of any group of Social Security beneficiaries," the head of the National Council on Disability, a federal agency tasked with giving independent policy information and advice to Congress and the White House,...
Month: April 2013
Social Security disability judges sue over excessive caseloads
The Association of Administrative Law Judges, a union representing ALJs at federal agencies -- 85 percent of whom work for the Social Security Administration -- has filed a lawsuit against the SSA claiming that their caseloads are too high to allow Social Security...
Scientists invent a wristband that can predict epileptic seizures
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have just announced that they have discovered a non-invasive way to predict disabling epileptic seizures in advance. While many people with epilepsy are not considered disabled, many do not respond as well to...
Is SSD ‘hidden welfare’? No, that’s another myth, say researchers
Last month, National Public Radio presented an enormous, six-part series on Social Security disability. The series attempted, in part, to explain the rising number of disability claims as an element of a "hidden welfare" system that has arisen due to desperate...