Social Security Disability &
  Special Needs Planning News from
 Sheri R. Abrams, Attorney at Law,
 Partner at Needham Mitnick & Pollack, PLC

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In This Issue
Social Security Announces New Online Services Available with a "My Social Security" Account
"FIFA 13" Is AbleGamer's Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year

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Issue: # 54January 2013
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These monthly newsletters are designed to show you how not to gamble with your or your patients/clients Social Security Disability and/or SSI benefits.  We also provide you with information on Special Needs Planning.

 

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Social Security Announces New Online Services Available with a "My Social Security" Account

 

Social Security LogoThe Social Security Administration is expanding the services available with a "my Social Security" account, a personalized online account that people can use beginning in their working years and continuing throughout the time they receive Social Security benefits.

 

More than 60 million Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients can now access their benefit verification letter, payment history, and earnings record instantly using their online account. Social Security beneficiaries also can change their address and start or change direct deposit information online.

 

Social Security beneficiaries and SSI recipients with a my Social Security account can go online and get an official benefit verification letter instantly.  The benefit verification letter serves as proof of income to secure loans, mortgages and other housing, and state or local benefits.  Additionally, people use the letter to prove current Medicare health insurance coverage, retirement or disability status, and age. People can print or save a customized letter.

 

Social Security processed nearly nine million requests for benefit verification letters in the past  year. This new online service allows people to conduct business with Social Security without having to visit an office or make a phone call, and very often wait for a letter to arrive in the mail.  It also will reduce the time spent by employees completing these requests and free them to focus on other workloads.

 

People age 18 and older can sign up for an account at www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount.  Once there, they must be able to provide information about themselves and answers to questions that only they are likely to know.  After completing the secure verification process, people can create a "my Social Security" account with a unique user name and password to access their information.

 

People age 18 and older who are not receiving benefits can sign up for a "my Social Security" account to get a personalized online Social Security Statement.  The online Statement provides eligible workers with secure and convenient access to their Social Security earnings and benefit information, and estimates of future benefits they can use to plan for their retirement. In addition, the portal also includes links to information about other online services, such as applications for retirement, disability and Medicare.

 

For more information, please click here:

 

 www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount

 

"FIFA 13" Is AbleGamer's Accessible Mainstream Game of the Year

 

Fifa 13FIFA 13, a soccer simulator, scored nearly a perfect 10 in AbleGamer's game accessibility review process by implementing options such as remappable keys, subtitles and colorblind options.

 

In addition, FIFA 13 includes settings that allow players to tailor game play directly to their abilities. Game play can be slowed down all the way to 10 percent of the normal speed, enabling those with cognitive disabilities to play the game inside their comfort zone. Furthermore, the artificial intelligence (A.I.) can be slowed down, while leaving the player's characters at full speed, giving gamers with mobility impairments the opportunity to react in more forgiving environments.

 

Perhaps even more impressive is that the game can be played by a mouse or trackball alone. This means people who are quadriplegics and those with severe disabilities, such as Muscular Dystrophy, can enjoy a sports game - in some cases, for the first time.

 

Sheri Abrams' Book "Don't Gamble With Your Social Security Disability Benefits--What Every Virginia Resident Needs To Know To Win A Social Security Disability Case" Is Available.

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