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If your retirement savings aren’t what you’d hoped--or you don’t have any at all--you’re not alone. By many different measures, Americans are lacking when it comes to retirement planning. 

Immigration is a pretty hot topic these days and I thought I would discuss a possible aspect of it in my blog entry that we do not normally hear about in the current national debate:  What happens to a claimant’s Social Security (SSA) monthly monetary benefits if they leave the United States?

The 2019 Social Security Administration’s (SSA) 2019 Fact Sheet is out and I thought I’d go over some of the new disability-related numbers in today’s blog entry.  There are several other non-disability Social Security-related numbers listed in the report for those interested.

I get this question a lot from clients.

In today’s blog entry I thought I’d get back to basics and revisit how exactly to apply for Social Security (SSA) disability benefits.

A well-known fact among those in Alabama applying for Social Security disability benefits is that the chances of success at the initial application stage of the process are abysmally low.  In fact, in

I recently saw an excellent – but very sad – documentary on Schizophrenia that I want to recommend to anyone interested in the subject entitled God Knows Where I am.  It chronicles the mental health struggle of Linda Bishop back in 2007 and 2008.  She was a college graduate with a loving family and a roof over her head that as a result of her illnesses she gradually descended into homelessness and legal trouble.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) recently announced a Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for beneficiaries to be applied in the upcoming year.  According to the agency, an adjustment of some 2.8 percent will be forthcoming for those receiving monthly monetary benefits in 2019.

I’ve previously detailed the long-running saga of Kentucky attorney Eric Conn and his co-conspirators and their fates as a result of them swindling the U. S. government out of some $550 million in fraudulent Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits.

Former (and probably future) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has recently introduced a bill optimistically entitled the Social Security Administration Fairness Act that proposes to touch on some of my chief areas concern that I have blogged about in the past where the agency often struggles to fulfill its m