Aleyda has been advocating for the rights of people with disabilities for over 20 years. Prior to her current position at Cornell, she represented clients in mediations and hearings in Social Security work incentives, vocational rehabilitation, special education, California Regional Center services, Medi-Cal and managed the Work Incentive Planning and Assistance project at Disability Rights California.
In 2024 SSA made several changes to the waiver of overpayment process and other key changes to make it easier to pay back a correct overpayment. These POMS changes are significant and will allow more people to be able to obtain waivers of social security overpayments. Some of these key changes include shifting the burden of proving an overpayment to SSA and establishing 20 situations when SSA can presume that the beneficiary is not at fault for creating the overpayment. This session will use hypotheticals to help explain the new concepts.
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This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.
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Aleyda Toruno | Cornell University
Aleyda has been advocating for the rights of people with disabilities for over 20 years. Prior to her current position at Cornell, she represented clients in mediations and hearings in Social Security work incentives, vocational rehabilitation, special education, California Regional Center services, Medi-Cal and managed the Work Incentive Planning and Assistance project at Disability Rights California.
Aleyda joined Cornell in 2023 where she provides work incentives training, technical assistance and support at the Yang-Tan Institute’s Work Incentive Support Center.
I. 2024 SSA overpayment and waiver process changes | 4:30pm – 4:50pm
II. Shifting burden of proof and fault presumptions in overpayment cases | 4:50pm – 5:10pm
III. Application of new POMS rules through hypotheticals | 5:10pm – 5:30pm