Category: Social Security Disability

When you think of disability, you may picture a disabled adult in a wheelchair or an adult who struggles with a severe mental illness. However, if you have a child who is disabled, your child may be eligible for Social Security Disability benefits. Social Security offers Supplemental Security Income which is designed...

As Matthew Philips reports for Bloomberg Businessweek, the Social Security Disability Insurance program is "facing insolvency" in 2016, as it did in 1994, when lawmakers used a portion of collected payroll taxes to prevent the crisis that would have erupted had there been a cut in disability benefits. The...

This opinion piece by Administrative Law Judge Jonathan Baird declares that Social Security's demise has been greatly exaggerated. "While the belief Social Security will not be there [when today's young people reach retirement age] appears to be widely held," Baird writes, "nothing could be further from the truth." Baird cites the 2014...

The Social Security Administration incorrectly declares thousands of Americans dead each year, as Ana Swanson reports for the Washington Post. Your death appears to happen on a micro level, so to speak. "By entering one number into the system incorrectly," Swanson writes, "a Social Security employee can bring your whole...

Many people with disabilities have suffered through contacts with uninformed police officers. While most people grin and bear the misunderstandings and unintentional insults, others don't, or can't. And while the relationship between people with disabilities and police isn't technically on topic, Maryland is going through a lot of police-community issues right now....

Social Security denies most initial claims for disability benefits, so if your application has been denied, you're not alone. You also have a right to appeal the denial, and when going through the appeals process, it is a good idea to have an SSDI attorney on your side. At...

Yes. If a work-related illness or injury causes you to become permanently disabled as defined by the Social Security Administration, you can qualify for Social Security disability benefits. This is true even if you also qualify for permanent total disability benefits through the Maryland workers' compensation system. That doesn't...

Tom Margenau served as national director of the Social Security Administration's public information office for many years. Now retired, Margenau writes the nationally syndicated column "Social Security and You." If there's one question Margenau gets a lot, it's whether Social Security disability counts as "real" Social Security benefits. His...

This time of the year, many people in Maryland who receive Social Security Disability benefits wonder what, exactly, their tax obligations are. Although the process for filing taxes while receiving SSD benefits is more complex than we can go into in a blog post, we hope that today's post will give you...

Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income are government programs, of course, with specific rules and a specific process set up to ensure that decisions made about these important benefits are made fairly. The Social Security disability application and appeals process is essentially the same here...