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Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

Job — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:19:35 -0000

It's sad to hear and fortunately not all Attorneys are Heartless, especially knowing some people are in dire financial situations. It does seem to be the case more often then not, finding legal help of any kind. Unless payment, settlement or awards are a high percentage certainty!

Sometimes the law is upheld or fought on your behalf, only if you have the money to pay for it! Doesn't sound like a country of freedoms and democracy anymore, does it? Tax paying citizens, you, me and us. Are no longer represented in many cases and its taxation without representation, just like in the Boston Tea Harbor days. No it's the Special Interet and Lobbying Industry that gets all the votes and representation. These very powerful groups have tipped the scales long ago. It's more important for a 3rd world country who sends people to comity vile acts against us, to get representation when we can't, due to the millions paid by them in the name of Special Interest!

Frankly it's quite sad to see entertainment idiots and others getting millions of dollars in settlements for frivilous things and issues that are grey areas, or illegal to begin with. Hulk Hogan for example. People are wrongfully terminated, discrimination, harassment, retaliation and other issues and are impacted in such a horrible way, yet receive little help or are discouraged from fighting what they were so wronged about. Unfortunately it's the lack of money to fight. The World and the Country is amuck of greed and corruption is rampant In all facets of local government. Evil is given a green light to cause havoc. Some people in power that can fight, stand by and do nothing because they think injustice will not happen to them, or that it will not happen to their families or friends. Guess what? What comes around, goes around and it always has and always will! Entire families ruined financially and homeless. In such despair that suicide is committed often. The cause was from the greed and illegal activities of the banks and financial institutions. When it backfired on them, causing them to loose their precious profits. They manipulated the government to bail them out with our very own tax dollars. People that lost everything, including their lives paid for the actions that caused their despair with their very own money. Of course NONE of it helped out the tax paying citizens of our very broken and corrupted system.

Many of our beautiful citizens lost jobs and are bellow the poverty level. Health Care has been unmercifully taken from us or cost driven up to unaffordable levels. Why because of certain people not liking Obama Care, harm the rest of us, in the same way as raising credit card interest rates, just to prove a point? Obama Care causing people who can't afford Health Care to begin with by penalizing them on Tax Returns, if they don't pay for Obama Care! That tiny bit of a tax return that could have like fed them some meals, before falling back into hunger again.

The last 6 months of politicians running for office and nonsense that is spewed. The lack of media coverage on "Real Issues" Certainly is helping and masking and hindering progress as usual. The whole system is a trajedy intentionally or non!

I might sound negative but unfortunately this is happening and we can no longer sit by idle or evil will triumph!

In any event, I realize I went way off topic. To the good people who posted, I really hope and pray you win your cases. I'm sure you really need what little money is left, for survival if nothing else!

Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

m00ncake — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:07:43 -0000

Please note that legal aid organizations can and do take SSA overpayment cases (though perhaps not in every state depending on funding and priorities). Ordinarily they cannot take fee-generating cases, but they can accept fee-generating cases after two private attorneys have declined a referral.

Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

alice — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:17:59 -0000

Any new developments,

Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

Chuckh — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 21:13:00 -0000

That is horrible. It is like they do not care at all.

Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

Thecoaxer — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:55:29 -0000

Billie, I have been fighting them as well. I MAY be on to something, basically I am trying to conduct a CLASS ACTION suit against Social Security. I am keeping the basis of my argument to myself until I have an attorney. Currently only 1 office looked into it and later said no. But, I have another looking at it. I will need to communicate with many others once I have an office assisting me. Don't give up, never stop fighting. Nick

Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

Billie Jo Morrison - Mackey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:01:02 -0000

Thank you for all your helpful information posted here. Here alone , would cost at least
a couple of hours of attorney's fees. I'm especially excited about the the fact that fighting S.S. quote -- Is NOT impossible unquote. ( I am in my 9th year of fighting an overpayment that THEY caused , and that I believed was correct , because I "assumed" the social security administration knew what they were doing ... turns out , I was very wrong. It is very hard if not impossible it seems to find anyone to take this on .. I am forced to go through legal aid.

Re: Overpayments: finding an attorney to help you

Get Attorney — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:01:28 -0000

when you hire an attorney for a Social Security case, if you pay a retainer toward fees, the attorney can never take fees out of that retainer unless Social Security approves the fees. You will know if Social Security has approved any fees because they will send you a letter, usually anywhere from 1 to 6 months after the case ends, telling what fees, if any, they have approved for the attorney.