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		<title>Are you a Freedom Disability Customer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[  If you would like to contact your Advocate, or hear a status update on your case, please call us at (877) 218-5017. You can also reach out to your Advocate through Freedom Square, a unique website created specifically for our customers. You will receive an email invite to Freedom Square after completing the initial interview with your [...]<br/>
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		<title>Social Security Disability (SSDI) Application Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freedom Disability</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application Process]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In order to receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits, you must apply and have the application approved by the Social Security Administration (SSA). There are four opportunities to win that approval...<br/>
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		<title>Movember Moustaches for Prostate Cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In October, it’s all about “pink” and Breast Cancer Awareness.  In November, it’s about “Mo.”  That’s “mo” for moustache and the “Movember” global campaign to raise funds for, and awareness of, prostate cancer and men’s health issues. A Leading Cancer Killer Prostate cancer kills over 30,000 men in the United States every year. It is [...]<br/>
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		<title>Railroad Disability Benefits Added to the Freedom Disability Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here at Freedom Disability we take pride in listening to our customers. For example, when veterans of the United States Armed Forces told us they needed help getting disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), we took action. I’m proud to say that, since 2010, our sister company Alpha, with its group of [...]<br/>
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		<title>Thirteen Disabling Medical Conditions Added to SSA Compassionate Allowance List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Disability News]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Social Security Administration (SSA) has added thirteen severe medical conditions to its list of Compassionate Allowance conditions. The list, which began with just 50 severe conditions in 2008, has grown to 113 diseases that meet SSA’s strict definition of disability. These are conditions involving the immune system and neurological disorders. In an October 13 [...]<br/>
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		<title>Medicare Open Enrollment Earlier This Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A provision under the Affordable Care Act has changed Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period to start a full month earlier than last year. The new dates are October 15 through December 7. The earlier period stretches over seven weeks, which is also longer than last year’s period of November 15 through December 31. The intention of [...]<br/>
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		<title>Social Security Administration Takes Action to Stop Threats to Employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The number of threats made to SSA employees by visitors to local SSA offices has jumped 43 percent in 2010. The rash of nearly 2,800 incidents has led the Social Security Administration (SSA) to take serious action. They have put together a new rule intended to lessen, if not stop all together, a disconcerting trend [...]<br/>
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		<title>What are Non-Medical Requirements for Social Security Disability Benefits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of our claimants—let’s call her Kathleen – was confused and concerned  when she got a letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA) that stated she had met the medical requirements for disability benefits, but the non-medical requirements of her claim still needed to be reviewed before a decision could be made.  SSA asked her [...]<br/>
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		<title>Social Security Disability and Retirement Benefits – What’s the Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Answers to Questions about Disability and Retirement Benefits I know from my experience in helping people with their Social Security disability claims both here at Freedom Disability, and in past years at the Social Security Administration (SSA), that people get confused about Social Security disability benefits and Social Security retirement benefits.  In fact, we get [...]<br/>
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		<title>Social Security Disability Beneficiaries Get Paid on Time After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzanna Laker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Americans relying on their Social Security disability benefits can rest easy for a while, now that the U.S. government has more borrowing power to pay its bills.  Debt-ceiling legislation passed the House and Senate August 2 after a long and contentious give-and-take between two political parties with two different points of view on what will [...]<br/>
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