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Visiting a Social Security Office? You Must Do This First

January 4, 2025

An in-person visit to a Social Security office can be important when you need personal assistance with complex situations, require help navigating paperwork, have questions that can’t be easily answered over the phone, or need to provide original documents that cannot be submitted electronically. This is especially true if you’re dealing with a significant life change

Social Security Changes Rules for How You Can Attend Your Disability Hearing

January 3, 2025

Before the COVID pandemic, if you were appealing a denial of Social Security Disability benefits, you basically had only one option for your appeal hearing: going to a Social Security Administration (SSA) facility to appear before an administrative law judge, either live in person or by video teleconference with another SSA office. When disability hearing offices

Sick Patients Are Bailing Out of Medicare Advantage (And it’s Costing You)

January 2, 2025

It is not hard to understand the tantalizing allure of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans—also known as Medicare Part C. The private insurers behind the government-funded plans promise to provide seniors and people with disabilities the same benefits they would get from traditional Medicare plans at low or even $0 premiums. Furthermore, they often offer extra

Social Security’s 2025 COLA Will Be Lower, But It’s Not All Bad News

October 2, 2024

Social Security laws stipulate that the amount of money paid to Americans who receive Social Security benefits (old age and disability benefits) must be adjusted annually for inflation. This is known as a Cost-of-Living Adjustment, or COLA. Enacted into law in 1973 and becoming effective in 1975, the annual COLA is intended to help beneficiaries

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