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		<title>California SSI Recipient Starts Online Petitition to Protest Decreased Benefits</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/08/california-ssi-recipient-starts-online-petitition-to-protest-decresed-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fran Cannon, a Californian who depends on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for her livelihood, has started an online petition to protest the recent reduction in Social Security disability benefits for SSI recipients in California.

With California being faced with a budget crisis, steps have been taken to reduce payments of benefit recipients in that state.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Holds Compassionate Allowance Hearing For Early-Onset Alzheimers Patients</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/08/social-security-holds-compassionate-allowance-hearing-for-early-onset-alzheimers-patients/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/08/social-security-holds-compassionate-allowance-hearing-for-early-onset-alzheimers-patients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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Officials from the Social Security Administration met last month in an Outreach Hearing to discuss the idea of adding Early-Onset Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease and other related dementia illnesses to the Compassionate Allowance Listings.
Testimony was given by Harry Johns, President and CEO of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association.  In an effort to point out that Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease can strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Claims Puts New Pressures on Social Security</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/08/increasing-claims-puts-new-pressures-on-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/08/increasing-claims-puts-new-pressures-on-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Retirement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Security Disability]]></category>

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Social Security Disability Claims On The Rise
Recent efforts by the Social Security Administration to cut through a massive backlog of disability claims is being tempered by a sharp, spiked rise in applications this year.  Experts blame the current economic downturn, and the expansive increase in applications shows no signs of slowing. 
Last March, The Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer-Stricken Social Security Claimant Makes YouTube Plea To Obama</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/cancer-stricken-social-security-claimant-makes-youtube-plea-to-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/cancer-stricken-social-security-claimant-makes-youtube-plea-to-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Illness, Pain, Misdiagnosis &#38; Denial
Gayle DeVilbiss, a 54 year-old woman in Arizona, was originally diagnosed with fibromyalgia back in 2007.  She applied for Social Security benefits and was denied. Then, after various treatments and further study, Ms. DeVilbiss learned that she was actually suffering from Non Hodgkin&#8217;s Lymphoma, a serious form of cancer requiring chemotherapy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Security Overpayments - What Can You Do?</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/social-security-overpayments-what-can-you-do/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/social-security-overpayments-what-can-you-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Claimant Received Social Security Benefits After Going Back To Work
From Action 9 News in Charlotte, North Carolina comes a story of Tommy Thompson, a disabled man who was billed by the Social Security Administration for overpayments that he received after taking a teaching job while on Social Security disability benefits.  At face value, it may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Mulls Social Security Reform Ideas</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/senate-mulls-social-security-reform-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/senate-mulls-social-security-reform-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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While no new bills have been presented to either houses of Congress, the U.S. Senate held a Special Committee meeting last month to discuss better ways of implementing the Social Security benefits program for those who need it the most, the fastest.
At issue was the current state of the economy and how the recession has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Children While On Social Security</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/raising-children-while-on-social-security/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/07/raising-children-while-on-social-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the advent of medical progress on all fronts, there has been a sharp rise in the median age for women who bear children.  The Centers for Disease Control reports that the median age for mothers at their first live birth rose from as low as 20.3 years in 1970 up to 27.8 years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview With A Social Security Attorney</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/06/interview-with-a-social-security-attorney/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/06/interview-with-a-social-security-attorney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Steven Packard, a Social Security Attorney who represents disability claimants granted an interview to the local news.  The transcript follows:
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John Bridges: We&#8217;re talking with attorney Steven Packard on Social Security Disability.  It&#8217;s something that a lot of people have to deal with everyday.  Steven, who needs to worry about Social Security disability?  Who does this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop and Think - Common Errors in Disability Strategy</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/06/stop-and-think-common-errors-in-disability-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/06/stop-and-think-common-errors-in-disability-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent conversation with a middle-aged gentleman brought a dangerous situation to light.  Apparently, he took an early retirement at age 50 from his former employer, and with his small retirement pension and his 401K accounts he was able to sustain a modest, comfortable standard of living.  Unfortunately, falling stock values have cut his 401K [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention To You Social Security Statement</title>
		<link>http://disability-blog.com/2009/06/paying-attention-to-you-social-security-statement/</link>
		<comments>http://disability-blog.com/2009/06/paying-attention-to-you-social-security-statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hal LaPray</dc:creator>
		
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With as much mail as we receive these days, it&#8217;s important to be able to tell the good from the bad and the ugly.  Be careful, however, because some of what may appear at first to be unnerving may not always be a cause for fear or alarm.
Although clearly addressed from the government and postmarked [...]]]></description>
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