The Social Security Administration (SSA) has implemented a significant change in its appeal process for disability beneficiaries. This change affects those whose benefits have been terminated ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced progress this year to reduce customer burden by transitioning wet (physical) signature requirements to digital signatures for over 30 forms as ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest in spring 2020, the Social Security Administration (SSA), along with scores of businesses, was forced to close about 1,200 field offices and transition ...

The agency needs a vendor that can process document images from 145 hearing offices to conform with its electronic folder business process.

Those forms collectively represent roughly 14 million signatures submitted yearly, making up 90% of the forms most regularly used by customers at local SSA offices. “Across forms that Americans use ...

Impairment: Impairment is another way to refer to disability. The SSA provides a listing of impairments that helps define what impairments it will recognize. AS may qualify under the broad listing ...

The new application is meant to be simpler and is informed by customer testing, SSA said. It will be pre-populated where possible, and have as few as 12 questions — down from 54.