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Here’s an interesting Letter to the Editor that just came across my desk… Social Security Office on a Mental Vacation. Read it here: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/15/Pasco/Social_Security_offic.shtml or here http://tinyurl.com/kxyln Any thoughts? My thought is that this claimant needs to contact his congressman’s local office for assistance. But what do you do when the whole system appears to [...]

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Well– Take a look at the complete story here: Feds Could ‘Gut’ Social Security Disability Rolls And NOSSCR (National Organization of Social Security Claimant Representatives) response here: http://www.nosscr.org/age.pdf The news organization that presented the story also gave links to a related story: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SOCIAL SECURITY:THE IMPLICATIONS OF REFORM PROPOSALS Of course the conclusion [...]

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Here’s a disturbing story right here in the Triangle about a corrupt disability advocate who was charged with managing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) funds for a disabled patient. You can read it here: http://www.newsobserver.com/138/story/427221.html What I really didn’t understand about this story was this statement made by the director of the agency: “We operated on [...]

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