Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The Social Security Administration has implemented its new quick ...

On October 13, 2010, we published a final rule that temporarily authorized State agency disability examiners to make fully favorable determinations without the approval of a State agency medical or ...

This process will be extremely useful in making quick determinations for the medical disability component of the Social Security Cares program. Another program, Compassionate Allowances, provides an ...

Traditionally, the Social Security Administration (SSA) followed a pretty comprehensive process to evaluate disability claims. The in-depth nature of the process is meant to provide accurate ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - State Social Security Administration disability examiners may make findings that are "fully favorable" to the claimant, without approval by medical or psychological consultants, in ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The Social Security Administration has proposed to allow disability examiners in state agencies to make temporary "fully favorable" determinations on certain claims for disability ...

The Social Security Administration is suspending much of a disability claim reform effort it has been testing in Boston. The Boston pilot program, launched in 2006, has cost $24 million more than ...

Q: Why are some people able to get Social Security income earlier than others? A: Generally, Social Security benefits are paid to eligible workers, and their families, based on the workers' earnings.

The agency plans to go nationwide with a process that uses a predictive model to analyze selected data elements in electronic files and identify claims that can be handled quickly. The Social Security ...

For several months, The Oregonian has been reporting on the unacceptable backlogs and delays in processing Social Security disability applications and the devastating effects they have on Oregon's ...