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  • Proposed Social Security disability changes could cut off disabled recipients

    01/14/2020 8:04:30 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 67 replies
    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | January 13, 2020 | Kate Giammarise
    A proposed change to federal disability assistance would result in millions of more case reviews, likely cutting off many disabled recipients, if the changes are enacted. The federal government is accepting public comments on the proposal until the end of January. Under the proposal, millions more reviews would be conducted and hundreds of thousands of people would have reviews more frequently. “We think the real intent of this is just to be a backdoor cut to the program,” said Jen Burdick, a supervising attorney with Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, who assists people applying for disability benefits. Anyone applying for...