It ain’t broke yet, but federal disability insurance still needs some big fixes
EVERY SO often, the federal government’s financial performance surprises on the upside. Recent case in point: new data in the annual report of the [...]
House GOP 2019 budget calls for deep Medicare, Medicaid spending cuts
House Republicans offered a budget proposal on Tuesday that would cut mandatory spending by $5.4 trillion over a decade, including $537 billion in cuts [...]
Government Urged To Improve Disability Services
Services for children with disabilities and their families should be far more coordinated and easier to access, according to a new report produced for [...]
Schumer promises to push for money to help local Social Security offices improve service
Sen. Charles Schumer told a crowd of 130 people at the Glenville Senior Center that he will use his clout as majority leader to ensure [...]
Trump Signs Order to Require Recipients of Federal Aid Programs to Work
President Trump quietly signed a long-anticipated executive order on Tuesday intended to force low-income recipients of food assistance, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to join [...]
Women and Disability Insurance: Five Facts You Should Know
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) — which provides modest but vital benefits to workers who can no longer support themselves due to a serious and [...]
Watchdog reports reveal problems at the strained, underfunded Social Security Administration
Reports of Social Security’s financial problems appear like clockwork, yet the agency’s enormous operational issues receive little attention. Long before 2034 – the currently projected [...]
Trump’s Social Security budget offers more work, less staff, longer waits
For the elderly and disabled who complain about poor Social Security assistance now, these might be the good old days. President Trump’s proposed fiscal 2019 [...]
Budget Agreement Funding Could Reduce Social Security Disability Backlog
The bipartisan agreement to raise the caps on discretionary spending in 2018 and 2019 reportedly calls for higher funding for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) operating budget, [...]
Another day, another stealth attack on Medicaid
Another day, another attack on Medicaid — and on the poor and working class. According to a little-noticed McClatchy report this week, Arizona, Kansas, Utah, [...]