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Social Security Disability Wait Times Soar Even Higher as the Backlog Balloons

February 4, 2024

Winning Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits has always been a long and difficult grind. For Americans who have disabilities, wait times for appeal hearings have been frustratingly long for some time, and they have gotten worse, reaching record highs. The time it takes for the Social Security Administration (SSA) to process even initial applications

Federal Judges Reprimand Social Security as Disability Cases and Denials Stack Up

September 4, 2023

The numbers paint a disheartening picture of the state of Social Security Disability cases in 2023. More than one million people are currently waiting for Social Security to review their applications for disability benefits, according to the nonpartisan data association USAFacts. At the same time, the average processing time has also hit a new record

AARP Puts Pressure on Social Security to Improve Customer Service

March 2, 2023

AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons), the largest public interest group for seniors in the U.S., is flexing its muscle (and the muscle of its more than 38 million members) to put pressure on the Social Security Administration (SSA) to improve its customer service. In a blog post on AARP.org, the organization says they

Changing with the Times: Social Security Adopts Gender Self-Attestation Policy

January 3, 2023

Gender identity is at the very core of how we see ourselves, and acceptance of gender self-attesting is growing. Now, under new guidelines, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is changing with the times. All individuals will now be allowed to self-attest to their gender, to make sure that their records with the SSA align with

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