by Charlie Hollins | Oct 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
2026’s Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) was recently published and there are some limited but welcome increases across the board. Benefits are due to go up 2.8%. In terms of how that looks to SSI recipients, it means that the Federal Benefit Rate (FBR) will rise to...
by Charlie Hollins | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Social Security has issued a statement on its Advocates webpage highlighting the level of its availability during the government shutdown which went into effect today, October 1. Crucially, all SSI and SSDI payments will continue without change and on the same payment...
by Charlie Hollins | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
It may have escaped your attention, as it did this writer’s, that on August 29 this year Social Security issued Emergency Message 25029 REV. Emergency Messages are the agency’s method of notifying every office of the new protocols to follow. This one’s purpose is to...
by Charlie Hollins | Sep 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
To judge from the figures presented in the 2024 review of Maryland Department of Disabilities’ Technical Assistance Program (MDTAP) there’s not much knowledge within the state of the program itself or any of its projects. MDTAP has provided the Assistive Technology...
by Charlie Hollins | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Maryland’s Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) has long understood the need to provide funding to children and adults in the community in order that they might lead happier and more fully integrated lives in the community. What was once called Rolling...
by Charlie Hollins | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
To commemorate this landmark birthday, we’ve re-published the open letter from Frank Bisignano, the agency’s current commissioner. Today, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of Social Security—a program that has stood as a pillarof economic security and...
