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YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY | Davenport, Iowa Office

By Pam Shaw
Social Security District Manager
Davenport Social Security Office

Social Security offers Outreach to Vulnerable populations

Social Security is here to help you with Social Security and Supplemental Security Income-related critical cases. If you are aware of someone who is in a dire need situation, and has been unable to contact his or her local Social Security office, please let me know.

Most Social Security services can be completed online at www.SSA.gov. We also are available by phone at our national toll-free number at 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325-0778), or by calling your local Social Security office. We recognize that some services may require a face-to-face interview, especially for dire need situations and critical cases. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to keep the public and our employees safe, we have been limiting in-person assistance to appointment only for certain dire need situations.

Do you know someone who has a dire need situation who has been unable to get the help they need? If so, please contact the Regional Public Affairs Office at 816-936-5740 or kc.rpao@ssa.gov.

FASTER PROCESSING OF DISABILITY CLAIMS FOR PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Today, more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Since the onset of Alzheimer’s can occur in people before they retire, it may strike during an individual’s working years; preventing gainful employment as the disease
progresses.

As a result, people must come to grips with a devastating diagnosis while losing their salary and benefits. People with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers must figure out how they’ll pay for care. Our benefits and services are vital to people with early-onset Alzheimer’s who are unable to work and have no other source of income.

For over a decade, Social Security has included Alzheimer’s disease in our Compassionate Allowances program. The Compassionate Allowances program identifies debilitating diseases and medical conditions so severe they obviously meet our disability standards. Compassionate Allowances allow for faster processing of disability claims for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, mixed-dementia, and Primary Progressive Aphasia.

You can read more about our Compassionate Allowances program at www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances. To learn more about how Social Security disability insurance works, visit our disability page at www.ssa.gov/disability. Please share these resources with friends and family.