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  By Frank DelRosario of Midwest Disability, P.A. on Friday, October 30, 2015.
  In the year 2000, President Clinton signed into law the Electronic Signature in Global and National Commerce Act (the E-sign Act), which declares that an electronic signature "may not be denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form." Since then, digital signatures have been regarded as binding on contracts, including agreements made between applicants for Social Security Disability benefits and their attorneys or representatives. Yet even today, some personnel in the Social Security Administration (SSA) have been hesitant to recognize the validity of anything other than a wet signature.
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  By Frank DelRosario of Midwest Disability, P.A. posted in Social Security Disability on Friday, October 30, 2015.
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  Tags: deafness, disability, hearing loss
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  Social security disability claims for physical impairment
  By of Midwest Disability, P.A. posted in Social Security Disability Benefits for Injuries on Friday, October 23, 2015.
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  Veterans will not likely receive benefits increase in 2016
  By of Midwest Disability, P.A. posted in Social Security Disability on Wednesday, October 14, 2015.
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  What should I do if my SSI or SSDI claim was denied?
  By of Midwest Disability, P.A. posted in Supplemental Security Income (SSI) on Thursday, October 8, 2015.
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  By of Midwest Disability, P.A. posted in Social Security Disability on Friday, October 2, 2015.
  Continue reading Discounts for medical marijuana dispensary customers...
  Social Security Disability: Full Retirement Age
  When the Social Security program was developed in 1934 (signed into law in 1935), President Roosevelt called upon assistance from actuarial studies, which initially indicated that the correct full retirement age (also called "normal retirement age") for a solvent, self-supporting program should be sixty-seven. Though the German model system (which predates our own by 46 years) had selected seventy as the minimum qualifying age, the actuaries on the Social Security program eventually chose sixty-five as the full retirement age "because sixty was too young and seventy was too old. So we split the difference"[1]