For years, Oklahoma has struggled with issues including child poverty, DHS supervision, and teen pregnancy. While our state certainly has a lot going for it as far as early childhood education and other child welfare initiatives, we clearly have a lot of...
We sometimes hear of situations in which a person is attacked in broad daylight, in the presence of witnesses, and no one helps or does anything to intervene. Psychologists call this phenomenon “the bystander effect.” Interestingly enough, the greater...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is faced with an enormous backlog of claims and applications at the agency’s Social Security DisabilIty program, a backlog that has created headaches and concerns for both the government and the disabled workers seeking...
At the end of 2012, Commissioner of Social Security Michael J. Astrue announced the addition of 35 Compassionate Allowances to the Social Security Disability programs list of fast-track medical conditions. The additional conditions bring the total number of...
Sometimes it can seem as if obtaining Social Security Disability benefits is a matter of persistence and tenacity, and statistics regarding SSD benefits approval in Oklahoma certainly support that feeling. Nationally, the denial rate of initial disability claims...
