E-Newsletter

Vol. 43 – Winter/Spring 2021:  PWDF Has Noted More than the Usual Number of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Disability Benefit Check Cessations Without the Legally Required Pre-Termination Hearings; Pandemic Affects a Recreation Center for Individuals with Severe Mental, Intellectual, and/or Developmental Disabilities by Creating Barriers Without In-person Interactions; Update on our Advocacy and Pilot Grant Programs

Counsel’s Corner: PWDF Has Noted More than the Usual Number of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Disability Benefit Check Cessations Without the Legally Required Pre-Termination Hearings; This is Among a Complex Analysis of 84 Federal Programs

Community Currents: Pandemic Affects a Recreation Center for Individuals with Severe Mental, Intellectual, and/or Developmental Disabilities by Creating Barriers Without In-person Interactions; PWDF Grant Used to Connect Participants to Innovative Programming

In the Spotlight: PWDF Advocacy Program Update – SSA’s Administrative Appeal Is Used as a Tool to Circumvent Claimant’s Right to Take Case to Federal Court; the SSA Discourages Attorneys from Representing Disabled People

PWDF Update: PWDF Awards Grants to Eight Programs that Serve People with Psychiatric, Intellectual, and/or Developmental Disabilities (P/IDD)