Month: August 2010

  • Social Security Disability Insurance Is Necessary

    On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Although we take Social Security for granted these days, at the time its passage was considered a revolutionary act.  Opponents of Social Security viewed such things as a slide into Marxism, while others decried government interference in what should have been a solely…

  • Understanding Social Security Fees and Retroactive Benefits

    FEES AND RETROACTIVE BENEFITS IN SOCIAL SECURITY CASES Social Security Attorney Fees People often ask, “How am I supposed to pay for a Social Security attorney when I am disabled and can’t work?” The good news is that there is a fair solution to all involved in this process. Social Security attorneys are paid on…

  • Wicked Understudy Suffers Yaz Related Stroke

    Have any of you seen Wicked? It’s a musical that is currently making a successful run on Broadway up in New York. It essentially tells the back story of the various witches who appear in the Wizard of Oz. And that means all of them. The good witches, as well as the various wicked witches who…