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Tax Season: What To Know If You Get Social Security or Supplemental Security Income
It’s tax season once again. It’s important to read this blog even if your earnings or benefits don’t require you to file a federal tax return. You may be entitled to special tax credits that can mean extra cash to help you with expenses. These tax credits are available even if you receive Supplemental Security […]
Long COVID and Disability
By Barbara B. Comerford, Esq. And Carlissa L. Prettyman, Esq. Our law firm receives many calls from individuals who have either been diagnosed in the past with COVID-19 by PCR or other testing, or who believe they suffered from COVID-19 based on the symptoms they experienced within the last year, some in the early months […]
Social Security Administration Beneficiaries Eligible for Total and Permanent Disability Federal Student Loan Discharge
Management Challenge: Improve Service Delivery Report Number: A-06-17-50281 Signed Date: Monday, November 9, 2020 Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) notified the Department of Education (ED) about all beneficiaries with medical improvement not expected (MINE) disability status who may have been eligible for total and permanent disability (TPD) Federal student loan discharge. View […]
POST PANDEMIC SUREVEILLANCE BY LONG TERM DISABILITY INSURANCE CARRIERS
As someone who has, for more than 30 years, represented thousands of individuals who have applied for disability benefits, I can tell you one of the most common questions I receive from clients who have applied for or are receiving long term disability insurance benefits (LTD) is, “Do long term disability companies hire people to […]
Disability Claims Post Pandemic
As someone who has practiced disability law for over 30 years, I, like most of you, feel we have entered the Twilight Zone since the start of the pandemic. Initially we began receiving calls from individuals complaining of COVID 19 symptoms but who had no access to testing. Some had been tentatively diagnosed with COVID-19 […]
VA, SSI recipients with eligible children need to act by Tuesday, May 5 to quickly add money to their automatic Economic Impact Payment; ‘Plus $500 Push’ continues
Issue Number: IR-2020-86 Inside This Issue May 5 deadline for VA, SSI recipients who don’t file a tax return and have dependents VA, SSI recipients with eligible children need to act by Tuesday, May 5 to quickly add money to their automatic Economic Impact Payment; ‘Plus $500 Push’ continues WASHINGTON […]
Supplemental Security Income Recipients Will Receive Automatic COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments
Supplemental Security Income Recipients Will Receive Automatic COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments The Social Security Administration announced today that Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients will receive automatic Economic Impact Payments directly from the Treasury Department. Treasury anticipates these automatic payments no later than early May. SSI recipients who have qualifying children under age 17, however, should […]
What Decades Practicing ERISA and Disability Income LTD Insurance and Social Security Disability Law has Taught Me, and What Clients and Potential Clients Need to Know
1) DISCLOSE, DISCLOSE, DISCLOSE. Withholding information from your disability attorney might cost you dearly. Quite simply, an attorney is your mouthpiece. If you fail to disclose information to your disability attorney or, worse, lie about your situation, you will, at the very least, prevent your attorney from giving you the best legal guidance, or worse, […]
Disability Claimants Beware: Exaggerating the Times of Your Life on Social Media Can be Very Costly
Disability Claimants Beware: Exaggerating the Times of Your Life on Social Media Can be Very Costly When I first began practicing law few of my clients ever accessed the then little known world of the internet. But those days are long gone. Over the last couple of decades, we have become a social media obsessed […]
The Court Issues a Favorable Decision for Our Client and Agrees with an Important Argument Advanced by the Law Offices of Barbara B. Comerford and Protects the Client’s ERISA Disability Claim Rights
The Law Offices of Barbara B. Comerford recently obtained an important favorable decision in Federal Court, affirming our client’s rights and recognizing the zealous legal action we took to protect them. Our client was an Exotic Foreign Exchange Options Broker, who has as, among other policies, a Group Long Term Disability Policy with MetLife, which […]
