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2019 SSI and SSDI COLAs Announced!
Social Security has announced the Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) for 2019 and it's good news as there will be a 2.8% increase in benefits in the new year. This means that the standard SSI Federal Payment for an individual will go from $750 to $771 a month; an SSI...
Cash on The Nail: Emergency Advance Payments (EAP) and Immediate Payments (IP)
It is somewhat heartening to find that Social Security has recognized that there are times and situations where some people will find themselves utterly without a means to pay for necessary services. To that end the agency has gone some way to provide financial...
Wait For It: SSI and Retrospective Monthly Accounting
Given the tight space between subsistence and penury in which SSI recipients are often required to exist it is something of a peculiarity of the SSI program that there’s a specific policy that can appear to leave beneficiaries bereft at the very moment they have the...
What’s Different When Working on Child’s Benefits
Within the wonderful work of federal and state benefits we encounter benefits programs that seem determined to add to their already confusing regulations by laboring under titles that are unquestionably similar to other programs. Thus we have SSI and SSDI, Medicare...
Compassionate Allowances: Social Security’s Fast-Track to Benefits Eligibility
As anyone who has applied for SSDI and/or SSI knows there’s the rather long and tedious application to get through. As part of that application you have to provide as much medical evidence of your disability as you possibly can, and if you don’t have it to hand then...