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Hal Rogers: Social Security Disability Payments Restored for Hundreds in E. Ky
(By - Kentucky Press Association Co-op)
The federal government will restore Social Security disability payments to hundreds of people in Eastern Kentucky whose checks were suspended pending a review of their eligibility, easing fears of economic ruin for many families….[U.S. Rep. Hal] Rogers had met with several Social Security officials Wednesday and asked them to lift the agency’s earlier decision to suspend benefits, citing the hardship it would cause. The move to suspend checks could have left hundreds of people in Eastern Kentucky with little or no income for a year or more. That had caused fears about people not being able to afford food or medicine or losing their homes. The loss of benefits might even have played a role in three suicides….
The suspensions affected former clients of Floyd County lawyer Eric C. Conn. The Social Security Administration notified 900 people that their payments had been suspended because of suspicion that the cases Conn submitted for them included fraudulent information from four doctors. Read more…
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