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Will You Depend on Social Security for Retirement?

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. 

The Social Security Administration: 2019 Disability Benefits

Brad BotesThe 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.

Schizophrenia and Social Security Disability Benefits

attorney james ezzellI 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 tro

Conn Sentenced to 27 Years!

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.

Senator Bernie Sanders to the Rescue!

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 man