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T.S Eliot famously set off on his epic poem“The Waste Land” by declaring it the cruelest month but April has an additional identity as National Social Security Month, even if the notion is still to catch on at a truly national scale. There is certainly little evidence...

The CASH Campaign of Maryland (Creating Assets, Savings and Hope) is a new program that has been set up to assist Maryland residents with modest means to work towards financial security. As part of that initiative CASH has been promoting its free Financial Planning...

Having had to wait until nearly halfway through 2018 for last year's figures, this year Social Security has been able to publish their threshold amounts for the 1619b provision with a certain degree of punctuality. Although there's no guarantee that the threshold will...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just published the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) guideline figures for this year. These figures, which as would be expected have increased from 2018, are used to determine eligibility for Medical Assistance through...

When you apply for benefits you are effectively saying that you have a disability that is expected to last for at least a year. Most applicants will expect that the disability will last considerably longer than that but there is the option to receive benefits to cover...