Paul Chambers🚧1d ago
Helping a disabled, retired government worker on Social Security stop an overpayment of $31K after the Biden era SSA offset ended and his payments increased, got his offset backpay, and then for whatever reason, Trump's SSA reversed that on his account, lowered his monthly payment adding the offset back, issued an overpayment, and will soon start deducting 60% of his monthly #SocialSecurity check until 2030. Making matters worse is the local #SSA office is understaffed. Glad this was my business for decades. My old contacts are still picking up my calls. lol.
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧

2/ After I posted my post above, this article was sitting in my RSS feeder: #SSA #SocialSecurity

🔗 DOGE Attacks on Social Security Have Left Millions in the Lurch ~ Disabled, ill, and aging Americans are facing a broken system that’s now harder to navigate than ever.

https://truthout.org/articles/doge-attacks-on-social-security-have-left-millions-in-the-lurch/

DOGE Attacks on Social Security Have Left Millions in the Lurch

Disabled, ill, and aging Americans are facing a broken system that’s now harder to navigate than ever.

Truthout
Apr 6 at 5:09pmWeb
Show threadcobalt1d ago

@paul Every bit of the article is true. Seen a lot of wretched issues both for my son in the last 46 years and for people we know who are trying to get through the process. In general the rule of thumb in Arizona was 2 1/2 years for a successful outcome. Everyone starting process asks “how do you pay your rent, utilities and food while you wait that long?”

Also common increasingly, give up after 1st denial and go straight to hiring a lawyer. Here the lawyers generally have no quicker results than if you keep appealing. And once you get it, they take 30% of the initial payment for Social Security. If successful the amount awarded gives a lump sum payment for each month date of filing to date awarded. This can be thousands of dollars!