Media Coverage: SSA Budget & Appeal Backlog

Here is an updated 2008 list (through August 27, 2008) of 212 press articles about the Social Security backlog. Last year there were 115 for the entire year.

• Media Coverage Update — 8/27/08 [PDF]

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• CBS Evening News Investigation: Social Security Disability Benefits
  • Part II — Video - Aired 1/15/08

  • Part I — Video - Aired 1/14/08

  • Doctor On Disability Insurance — Only On The Web: Dr. Nicholas LaRocca of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

• Stringing Along Those Who Deserve Benefits — The News & Observer – Raleigh, North Carolina (12/13/07)

• Insult and Injury — St. Louis Post Dispatch (12/13/07)

• Editorial: Disabled and Waiting for Justice — The New York Times (12/11/07)

• Disability Cases Last Longer as Backlog Rises — The New York Times (12/10/07)

• Editorial: Correct Social Security Disability Claims System — Express-News – San Antonio, Texas (12/4/07)

• Disabled Sevierville Man May Lose Home to Foreclosure — WATE 6 – Knoxville, Tennessee (12/1/07)

• Denial of Disability Claims Creates Serious Hardships — The Athens Messenger – Athens, Ohio (12/1/07)

• Sick of Waiting — AARP Bulletin (11/07)

• The Line Starts Here — AARP Bulletin (10/07)

• Marking Time, Making Do — The New York Times (4/1/07)

• Additional Documents & Links — Word Document

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