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Social Security Lump Sum Death Payment Overview
If you’re insured by Social Security and living with a spouse, your spouse is entitled to a lump-sum death payment of $255 when you die. If you don’t have a spouse or you’re not living with your spouse at the…
Social Security for All: Excerpt from ‘Social Security Works!’ by Nancy Altman Read Latest Breaking News from
AN EXPANDED SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM IS A SOLUTION TO a variety of challenges facing the nation, including the income insufficiency of today’s seniors; the retirement income crisis confronting today’s middle-aged and young workers; insufficient recognition of and public support for…
One-third of disability recipients cite mental disorder as reason for not working
A new breakdown of data from the Social Security Administration(SSA) reveals that more than one-third of federal disability recipients rely on diagnoses of mental disorders to qualify for the benefit. For the year ending in December 2013, 3,599,417 disability recipients cited…
How Are Social Security Benefits Affected During International Travel?
During long periods of international travel or residence, any social security payments you receive for a disability or medical condition may be affected. Internationally, your benefit payments through the SSA depend on: Read more… Notice: The “Read more…” link…
Budget Forecast Sees End to Sharp Deficit Declines
The federal budget deficit will continue to inch downward through next year, but even with the economy on an upward trajectory, the government’s red ink will begin to rise in 2017 and expand with an aging population, the Congressional Budget…
If You Like Your Medicare, You Can Keep Your Medicare
Not just Barack Obama, but all politicians promise to protect Medicare—even if they are robbing it to pay for ObamaCare. They don’t promise that you can keep your Medicare doctor, however. And they don’t address the question of what happens…
Disability Advocates Sharply Critical Of Plan To Ease Testing
As Congress looks to reauthorize the nation’s primary education law, advocates are blasting proposed changes they say would lead to lower expectations for students with disabilities. At a U.S. Senate hearing this week, lawmakers began the process of updating the Elementary…
Economy OK Now, but the Social Security Bill Will Come
The economy will have three years of growth before the government’s deficit weighs the country down, according to a report on the nation’s economic outlook issued by the Congressional Budget Office. By 2025, the federal budget may be returning to…
Company Creates Drums For Those With Sensory Issues
At the 2015 National Association of Music Merchants show in Anaheim, Calif. it sounded like heresy to hear a marketing honcho for one of the world’s leading drum manufacturers say, “We’re not trying to turn everyone into a professional drummer.” After…
Senate Subcommittee Assignments
The Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over Social Security has released its subcommittee assignments. The subcommittee assignments seem to be vastly less important in the Senate than in the House but here is the lineup for the relevant subcommittee:…Read…