As part of a campaign to reduce the number of people awarded Social Security disability, the Social Security Administration has changed the rule about how much weight to accord opinion statements from treating doctors. Under the old rule, it was presumed that the treating physician had a special knowledge of the patient, and those opinions …
The White House’s federal budget proposes to reduce federal spending for Social Security disability by 72 billion dollars over the next ten years. In addition, it proposes to cut 600 billion dollars from the Medicaid budget, in addition to the 839 billion dollars in Medicaid cuts proposed by the US House of Representatives. This would …
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has revised its listing for asthma (3.03), effective October 7, 2016. If you meet a listing, provided you do not have a job, you will be considered disabled without regard to your age, education or work history. The new listing includes criteria that are based upon displaying a forced expiration …
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has revised its neurological listings, effective Sept. 29, 2016. The listing for Epilepsy has been significantly reorganized. The current listing distinguishes between convulsive epilepsy (grand mal or psychomotor) and nonconvulsive epilepsy (petit mal, psychomotor, or focal). Under the current listing, if convulsive epileptic seizures occur monthly, in spite of three …
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