Disability and Divorce: How Benefits and Assets Are Handled in Family Law Cases
- 20 Apr 2026
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
Divorce is challenging for anyone, but when one or both spouses receive disability benefits, the process becomes significantly more complex. Common questions about this topic are how and if disability can be divided, and how do we protect assets while preserving eligibility for needs-based programs This post explains...
Read MoreSenators Move Forward with Plan to Invest $1.5T in Social Security
- 09 Aug 2025
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) are pushing for a plan to help Social Security in the long run. This bi-partisan effort looks to stabilize the future of Social Security by creating a secure trust which will grow over a 70-year period of time. The early...
Read MoreAt What Age Can I get Full Retirment from Social Security?
- 22 Jul 2025
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
Social Security is the safety net system you pay into from your very first paycheck. Its benefits are there to help should you become disabled and for when you retire from the workforce. As life expectancy increased through the decades so did the age at which you could...
Read MoreSocial Security Overpayment Withholding Rate to Increase
- 11 Mar 2025
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
An overpayment from Social Security is something which occurs from time. The overall majority of people receive the correct amount from the SSA. In fact, it is reported that fewer than 1% of payees ever receive an overpayment. Still, 1% when it is applied to many millions of...
Read MoreRetroactive Social Security Payments are Being Sent
- 07 Mar 2025
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
1.1 million people with public pensions began receiving retroactive Social Security payments this month. The SSA announced that people with public pensions, ie., people like firefighters, police officers and teachers, began receiving payments due under the Social Security Fairness Act. Payments are expected to go through next month...
Read MoreCan My Child Qualify for SSDI?
- 15 Oct 2024
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
Social Security benefits are not limited to adults. If a disabled adult, who qualifies for SSDI benefits, has dependents who completely rely on them for food, shelter & clothing, the dependents may qualify for payments as well. This is called dependent benefits. In other words, the Social Security...
Read MoreHow to Handle Social Security Disability Overpayments
- 07 Oct 2024
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
Overpayments can happen anytime money changes hands. This is no different when it comes to payments issued by the Social Security Administration. Sometimes, they error and send too much money or a double payment. What should you do if this happens? Please read on to find out. The...
Read MoreDisability Payments – What to Expect at the Start
- 05 Aug 2024
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
After applying for disability there is a bit of a waiting game. It can take about a year to hear back from the Social Security Administration to know if your application has been approved or denied. If you are approved, you can probably expect to wait another 5...
Read MoreWill Social Security Run Out of Money?
- 21 Dec 2023
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
You have probably heard about the possibility of Social Security running out of life for most of your adult life. This is always a concern because we all want to be able to receive benefits for something we paid into for our entire working life. So, will the...
Read MoreShould I Apply for Disability Back-Pay?
- 04 Nov 2021
- Posted By WebSiteAdmin
Back pay refers to past-due benefits that cover a period in which you had not been approved to collect disability benefits that you were medically qualified to collect. Therefore, to collect the back pay benefits, one must be incapable of working and being physically or mentally disabled. However,...
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