Social Security News
Social Security Hearings Backlog Down for First Time in Decade
Productivity and Processing Times Also Improve
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that for the first time since 1999, the agency has ended the year with fewer disability hearings pending than in the prior year. Social Security ended fiscal year (FY) 2009 with 722,822 hearings pending compared to 760,813 hearings pending at [...]
Social Security Establishes Financial Literacy Research Consortium
Research Centers Will Develop Innovative Ways to Help Americans Plan for a Secure Retirement
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced the establishment of a new Financial Literacy Research Consortium (FLRC), made up of research centers at Boston College, the RAND Corporation, and the University of Wisconsin. The FLRC, supported through five-year cooperative agreements, [...]
Social Security Holds Compassionate Allowances Hearing on Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today hosted the agency’s fourth public hearing on Compassionate Allowances. Commissioner Astrue was joined by Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, and other Social Security officials. They heard testimony from some of the nation’s leading experts on early-onset [...]
Social Security to Open New Teleservice Center in Jackson, TN
Center Will Help Agency Handle Calls from Boomer Wave
Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that the agency plans to open a new teleservice center (TSC) in Jackson, Tennessee, which will be the first new call center opened by Social Security in more than a decade. The Jackson TSC will employ about 175 [...]
President Obama: Social Security Is Healthy… There’s No Need to “Save” It
No, Barack Obama didn’t actually say that… but he should. Here’s why.
With the economy crisis taking its toll, a lot of people are now depending on the new stimulus bill, which has just been passed, to slow down the waning economy. However, since only 700 billion dollars were given to President Obama by the Congress, [...]
Where Is My Social Security Check?
Many retirees live from one Social Security check to another. What happens if the checks stop coming? Just ask Lilly Ledbetter.
The the 70-year-old woman from Jacksonville, Alabama, fought a legal battle in 2007 for the rectification of a lower court’s ruling for her case on a long-term wage bias. For the 20 years that she [...]
