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		<title>3 Million Disability Applicants Each Year For Social Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced the agency is providing helpful health care information and website links to the more than three million individuals who apply each year for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability benefits. 


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		<title>Social Security Medical Express Records</title>
		<link>http://www.medicarecard.com/medicarecardblog/index.php/achives/2010/01/30/social-security-medical-express-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Johnstone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can submit evidence directly to your client's case file by using your office fax or through the Social Security secure Electronic Records Express website


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		<title>Often employers ask to see an employee’s Social Security card</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benny Korts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often employers ask to see an employee’s Social Security card. But, do you really need to see the card? Since 1936, Social Security has issued over 30 different versions of the Social Security number (SSN) card which makes it difficult to recognize a valid card.


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		<title>Social Security Hearings Backlog Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that for the first time since 1999, the agency has ended the year with fewer disability hearings pending than in the prior year.  Social Security ended fiscal year (FY) 2009 with 722,822 hearings pending compared to 760,813 hearings pending at the start of the year, a reduction of more than 37,000 cases.  Over the same period, the average processing time for these cases improved from 514 days in FY 2008 to 491 in FY 2009.


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		<title>Economic Recovery Act Payment for 2010 Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With consumer prices down over the past year, monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 57 million Americans will not automatically increase in 2010.  This will be the first year without an automatic Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) since they went into effect in 1975.


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		<title>Social Security Files Statement of Interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caroline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that the Department of Justice, on behalf of the Social Security Administration, has filed a “Statement of Interest” inUnion of American Physicians and Dentists v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California , which is currently pending in a state trial court in California.  The Union of American Physicians and Dentists includes employees of the California Disability Determination Services Division (DDSD), Department of Social Services, who evaluate Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income claims.  The Federal government fully pays for the salaries and overhead costs for these employees.


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		<title>New Enhancements to Online Retirement Estimator: Social Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced that the online Retirement Estimator, available at www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator, now can provide immediate and personalized benefit estimates to people who have enrolled in Medicare but have not yet filed for Social Security benefits.  Previously, these “Medicare only” beneficiaries would need to contact a local office in order to obtain an estimate of their benefits.  Currently, about a half-million people file for Medicare each year and delay filing for Social Security benefits.


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