Social Security Disability

A long backlog for Social Security Disability (SSD) claims means that people are waiting for months or even years to find out whether they qualify for compensation. In the meantime, many [...]

Social media posts have become part of the fabric of our lives—Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and more. We share inspiration, frustration, and news, oftentimes freely and publicly. While social [...]

To describe the Social Security disability application process as complicated is an understatement. Being approved for the benefits you may deserve is challenging. The approval rate for claims [...]

The majority of those denied their Social Security disability benefits have to survive the appeals process and appear before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). Unfortunately the Social Security [...]

As of March 2016, only seven of the nations’s 169 SSA Hearing Offices hold hearings within a year of when they are requested. The slowest hearing offices take 23 months. Adequate funding and [...]

From January to March 2016, there were 575,078 applications for SSDI disabled worker benefits. In the same three months of 2015, there were 604,831 initial applications – nearly a 5% [...]