BIDEN REVERSES SOCIAL SECURITY RULE THAT COULD STOP BENEFITS

The Biden Administration is reversing one of President Trump's policies concerning people who already receive Social Security disability. These individuals are called beneficiaries.

The former administration had called for more frequent reviews of persons on disability benefits to determine if they are still eligible. The result of these "continuing disability reviews" was to stop the benefits of hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries by claiming that they were no longer disabled. This plan was published in the Federal Register in November, 2019.

The government has now issued a freeze on that and several other rules which had threatened to curtail benefits to a large segment of the disabled public.

Social Security remains one of the most difficult programs from which to seek benefits. Applications go through many layers of review, and many claimants have to take their case before a judge to get the benefits they deserve. It can take up to 3 years to start a benefit if the claimant is forced to use all of the appeals available. (Not every claim takes that long, thankfully).

According to experts, the Social Security Administration is set to run out of money to pay 100 percent of benefits by 2034. Politicians have not been brave enough to tackle a fix for that problem.