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Social Security Benefits: Disability, Retirement, & More – the Biggest Program You Don’t Know Enough About (2025 Estate & Elder Law Symposium session)

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  • Start Date:2025-02-20 09:00:00
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  • Level:Intermediate
  • Topics:Elder Law

$79.00 ProPass

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This program is eligible for 1 hour of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 1.2 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.

Overview

Social Security Benefits: Disability, Retirement, & More - the Biggest Program You Don't Know Enough About
John Whitelaw

More than 72 million individuals receive some sort of benefits from the Social Security Administration. Over 55 million of those people are aged 65 or older. While everyone has heard of Social Security benefits, there is a huge lack of knowledge about the various programs administered by the SSA. In this session, you will learn about the different disability and retirement programs and who is eligible for benefits. We will also spend some time talking about OVERPAYMENTS and SSA’s long history of taking draconian action to recover them. In December, the Senate confirmed a new SSA Commissioner, Martin O’Malley. In just a few short months, he has instituted important and far reaching reforms that have changed how SSA approaches Overpayments. You will learn the details of these changes and how they can help your clients who are facing Overpayments.


Recorded in February 2025.

Faculty

John S. Whitelaw, Esq.

Mr. Whitelaw is Advocacy Director for the Community Legal Aid Society in Wilmington, Delaware. Before that he was co-director of the Aging and Disabilities Unit of Community Legal Services, Inc. in Philadelphia. Previously, he worked for legal aid programs in Delaware, West Virginia, and Minnesota. He has over 35 years of experience in representing clients before the Social Security Administration, having represented hundreds of individuals in administrative hearings, federal district court and the Court of Appeals. He graduated from Stanford Law School in 1986. He holds an A.B. in history from the College of William and Mary, which he received in 1983.

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