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Ben Franklin gets credit for saying that there are only two things certain in life -- death and taxes. Some have offered that there might be a third -- mistakes will be made.Considering the history of veterans' benefits, including some recent items that have made the...
There is no easy answer to the question posed here. Every Social Security Disability Insurance case is different. Individual circumstances and precedents from other cases in California and the rest of the country can be big factors in determining whether a case...
As a practice focused on Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income issues we keep a close eye on developments related to those programs. Funding has been a big concern for quite some time.Regular readers in Fresno and elsewhere are aware of...
Many who have been through the process know that applying for Social Security Disability Insurance can be like paddling a canoe upstream. Sometimes it can seem that no matter how hard you work at it, the end goal seems further out of reach with each passing day.As we...
The concept of Social Security is fairly straightforward. It's supposed to serve as a safety net. It does that through the delivery of a variety of benefits. Supplemental Security Income is the program based on financial need of a disabled person.Then there are the...
One of the basic tenets of the U.S. legal system is that individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. A lot of effort goes into trying to uphold that ideal in law enforcement and both civil and criminal court settings. It might not always be achieved, but...
One of the big headlines of the past week appears to turn up the heat on the Social Security Administration and the issues the government is facing regarding the solvency of the disability insurance program. In case you missed it, the SSA's Office of Inspector General...
Workers in California spend years paying their dues into Social Security Administration coffers. In most cases, they don't think much about what benefits they may represent. That's something to think about at retirement, right?But if you're among the folks who read...
The Social Security Administration has been around a long time. So has the disability benefits trust fund. You might think that with that legacy, the government would have managed to figure out how to be sure its records are accurate. That would seem to be doubly true...
We've known for years that Social Security programs are headed for trouble. Few are likely to have missed the word that the Social Security Disability Insurance trust fund is projected to be out of reserves by sometime late next year unless Congress takes action. Now...
