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Settlement Program: Refugee Transitional Cash Assistance

by Charlie Hollins | Jul 26, 2024 | Uncategorized

One of the lesser-known services administered by Maryland’s Department of Human Services must be the clearly titled Refugee Transitional Cash Assistance program. Funding comes from the federal government and allows those who are eligible to receive a little bit of...

Asset Protection: Accessing On-line Social Security Accounts Updated

by Charlie Hollins | Jul 19, 2024 | Uncategorized

In another move that seems to have been instituted by the new Social Security Commissioner, Martin O’Malley Social Security is asking all of us who set up regular old MySSA accounts before September 2021 to set up a new one using a different format. Before too long...

Time Off: SSA Looks to Simplify SSDI Application

by Charlie Hollins | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized

As part of the effort to provide better customer service across the board in the government Social Security has recently made a couple of small change to the SSDI application that makes the often tedious process a little easier and a little shorter. Already in place,...

A Kinder Cut: SSA Simplifies Rental Subsidies for SSI Recipients

by Charlie Hollins | Jun 13, 2024 | Uncategorized

A few weeks ago we discussed a change to the rules governing SSI’s In-kind Support and Maintenance (ISM) which seemed to have the needs of the beneficiary at heart as they looked to take out the calculations on food costs. While that appears to be a somewhat flawed...

Remembering the Greats: Subsidies and Special Conditions Work Incentive

by Charlie Hollins | May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized

In this weekend of remembering the past it’s worth noting that SSDI emerged from a program initiated during the Second World War to compensate and assist civil defense workers who became disabled in the course of their work to protect the nation. One of the key work...
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