Sometimes those who intend to help really screw things up. A couple of social workers in a local Illinois agency were convinced that all attorneys want to do is drag out Social Security cases so they can get fees. In fact, they were convinced that the best way to get disability benefits was for their […]

Unfortunately, there is a group of people in Washington who want to radically alter or eliminate the Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs.  One of them, Senator Orin Hatch of Utah, was in the news recently citing an in-house study on overpayments to recipients of these programs and suggesting that Social Security […]

If there is anything we Americans hate, its paperwork.  Unfortunately, when you apply for Social Security Disability or SSI, you get smacked with a lot of it. Too many people rush through the paperwork and make mistakes that can end up costing them their benefits! One of the forms that is easy to mess up […]