Blind Beneficiaries Sue Social Security Administration

Link: AT Journal, December 1, 2005, Article 2.

Blind Beneficiaries Sue Social Security Administration - SSA Fails to Provide Accessible Communications 

The American Council of the Blind and a group of individuals who are blind or have vision impairments today filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), alleging that the agency fails to provide the most basic accommodations to its blind applicants and beneficiaries. Specifically, the SSA communicates with its hundreds of thousands of blind applicants and beneficiaries in standard print that they cannot read, and terminates benefits even if the blind applicant or beneficiary was never made aware of a problem with his or her benefits. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.