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The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of
life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those
who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
PIA Calculator. The PIA Calculator (formerly called “AnyPIA”) is the powerful Social Security Benefit Estimate Program for Personal Computers (now including the Mac). Check the impact of a later disability onset date. Plug in a client’s past earnings, and then generate “what if” approximations of future benefits. Click Here for the details.
COLA Table. A handy list of annual increases, plus a guide to working backwards from incomplete Award Notices to actual benefit rates: Click Here.
Reaching Social Security. For our collection of agency directories, Click Here.
SSAS Newsletter
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The Red Book, published by Social Security, details the work incentives available to disabled recipients of SSDI and SSI. For access to the latest edition, Click Here
The 137 Unskilled Sedentary Occupations. The sedentary grid rules for unskilled workers are based on administrative notice of job data from the Department of Labor. What are these jobs? Click Here for details.
Standards of Conduct for Representatives - Final regulations published on August 4, 1998, set standards of conduct for all representatives. To read (or download) the full text, Click Here.
RIB-DIB Election: For your older client facing a reduction of disability benefits due to worker's compensation, check this Golden Nugget.
NOSSCR Online - Visit this online resource for advocates and applicants,
the home page of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives.
Nine Key Disability Rulings. Social Security published 9 important Rulings in the Federal Register on 7/2/96. Numbered SSR 96-1p through SSR 96-9p, the Rulings deal directly with the key aspects of disability claims. We have posted the full text of the Rulings here on SSAS - Click Here for access.
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