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Social Security Cuts Would Hurt Low-Income Older Adults
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ACB, Advocate Guide, Attorneys Fees, Clark v Astrue, Long-Term Care, Lopez v. Washington Mutual Bank FA, Martinez Settlement, Martinez Settlement, consumer handout, Martinez settlement, Martinez v Astrue, Medicaid, SSI, Social Security, Stimulus Bill, Voting Rights Act, accessibility, bank overdraft, blind, disability, fleeing beneficiaries, fleeing felon, fugitive beneficiaries, fugitive felon, martinez settlement, social security, ssi, visually impaired, webinar,The National Senior Citizens Law Center believes that government should provide a safety net for older adults and people with disabilities. Spending taxpayer dollars on Social Security and other benefits programs for low-income older adults is one of the fundamental reasons for taxing people in the first place. Throughout our history, we have fought to preserve that safety net in the courts and with policymakers. In recent cases, we have sought to reinstate Social Security benefits for those who had been wrongfully denied them or helped to make sure that older adults who are blind or visually impaired can actually read notices that have great import to them.
- Refugee, Asylees and Others Need Our Support
- Contact Your Members of Congress Today!...
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Senate Bill Seeks to Solve Refugee Sept. 30 Deadline Problem
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- Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY), Kirsten Gildebrand (D-NY) and Patrick Leahy (D-NY) have submitted a bill today to preserve SSI for some 4,600 refugees, asylees and other humanitarian regugees. ...
- SSI Needs To Be Reinvigorated - There's No Way to Survice on Its Current Benefit Levels
- Aging Today, Sep-Oct 2011. In a column, NSCLC's Gerald McIntyre says that SSI benefits levels need to be improved to allow people to step out of poverty. ...
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Treasury Rules Governing Garnishment of Directly Deposited Benefits
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- Effective May 1, 2011, rules went into effect governing garnishment from accounts into which certain exempt federal benefits are directly deposited. The new rules are designed to assure the account ho...
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Policy Issue Brief: Does the Social Security COLA Need to be Changed?
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- As policymakers debate changing the cost of living adjustment, NSCLC recommends a switch to the CPI-E as the basis for calculating the COLA for Social Security, veterans and other federal benefits....
- CASE: Clark v Astrue -- SSA Posts Instructions to ALJs on Clark v Astrue
- The Social Security Administration has posted on its website instructions to Administrative Law Judges (ALJ) and other ODAR personnel with regards to applying the agency's new policy with regard to pr...
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Increasing the Social Security Retirement Age Cuts Benefits and Drives Up Administrative Costs
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- This Policy Issue Brief discusses the serious long-term negative impact of increasing the Social Security retirement age. ...
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SSI Transfer Penalty: Harsh Consequences Need Attention
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- In a Policy Issue Brief entitled SSI Transfer Penalty: Harsh Consequences Need Attention, NSCLC says that "considering the hardship that the transfer penalty causes to SSI beneficiaries without a stro...
- Nationwide Class Certified in Clark v. Astrue
- A court in New York has certified a nationwide class in a successful challenge to the Social Security Administration's policy of suspending or denying Social Security and Supplemental Security Income ...
- Social Security & Federal Checks Must Be Direct Deposited
- With some exceptions, anyone who applies for federal benefits on or after May 1, 2011 must receive all checks through direct deposit....