West Coast Disability Legal Center

06/20/2022

Should I Request An In-person, Phone Or Video Hearing For My Disability Claim?: https://socialsecuritydisabilitynews.blogspot.com/2022/06/should-i-object-to-telephone-or-video.html

05/22/2022

Updates from the NOSSCR Conference:

The National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (“NOSSCR”) held its annual conference in Austin, Texas, last week. I...

04/26/2022

SSA is back in business:

The Social Security Administration (“SSA”) reopened their field offices to the public on April 7, 2022. This is the first time that the publ...

03/12/2022

SSA's phones are down:

Have you been trying to get through to SSA by telephone with no luck? Do you get a chronic busy signal or does the phone line disconnect whe...

03/01/2022

SSA To Reopen To The Public On March 30th!:

The Social Security Administration ("SSA") has taken a lot of heat over the last two years for their decision to close their doors to the pu...

01/04/2022

SSA Is NOT Reopening to The Public This Month After all:

The Social Security Administration (“SSA”) had previously proposed that they would start reopening the field offices on January 3, 2022. O...

12/24/2021

4 Important Changes For SSDI/SSI Benefits for 2022:

Every year the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) makes important changes to the monetary thresholds associated with Social Security D...

12/07/2021

10 Interesting And Recent Statistics About The SSDI Program:

Last month, the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) published their statistics addressing the Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSD...

10/04/2021

Social Security employees must be vaccinated by November 22nd:

The deadline for Federal Employees to be vaccinated is November 22nd, unless they meet one of the limited circumstances where an accommodati...

09/18/2021

SSA projected to run out of reserves by 2034:

Social Security issued a press release on August 31, 2021, revealing that the combined assets of reserves for both the retirement and disab...

08/22/2021

SSA adds 12 new conditions to its Compassionate Allowance list:

The Social Security Administration (“SSA”) added 12 new Compassionate Allowances conditions to the Compassionate Allowances program. This b...

07/26/2021

Biden Replaces SSA Commissioner:

July 9, 2021 marked a “changing of the guard” at the Social Security Administration. Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Former President Donald Tru...