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SSA Looking to Expand SSI Enrollment
In what has become an expected response time from the Social Secuity Administration, the agency has announced it is now responding to President Biden's January 2021 Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal...
Moving Up: HUD’s Family Self Sufficiency Program
For over thirty years now the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, more familiarly known as HUD, has been administering the Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) program. The purpose of FSS being to encourage those who are receiving HUD funded rental...
MDA Initiative to Help Maryland Food Bank to Buy Local
In an effort to increase food access across the state, the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA) has announced that it has signed on to an initiative funded by the US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Marketing Service which will enable local farmers...
Proof of Delivery? Conclusions from the POD Project
On these pages back at the tail end of 2017 we let you know about POD (Promoting Opportunity Demonstration). POD was a new demonstration project that Social Security was implementing to see how a different set of work incentives might change outcomes for working SSDI...
Whatever Happened to SSA’s Red Book?
Social Security were in the practice of publishing an annual version of their highly comprehensive guide to work incentives for those on SSDI and SSI but, like a disused KN95 mask, it appears to have fallen by the wayside. SSA’s Red Book webpage shows the last full...