RIO GRANDE VALLEY ESTATE PLANNING COUNCIL

Having retired from the Social Security Administration in June 2011,Tom Clark currently is a self-employed Social Security speaker and consultant.During his 33 years with the Social Security Administration (SSA),  Clark served in various capacities – as a claims representative, operations supervisor, field representative and public affairs specialist. Twice, he was given the Commissioner’s Citation, the highest award of the SSA. He also received four Deputy Commissioner of Communications Citations for excellence in makingthe complexities of Social Security and Medicare easily understandable.

Clark has made over 6,000 speeches and talks, more than anyone else in the history of the Social Security Administration. Many publications with a monthly readership of over two million persons have published his columns about Social Security. He has produced and appeared in over 200 TV shows about Social Security. He has been considered the expert in explaining how receiving a pension based on work not covered by Social Security, such as the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, can affect Social Security benefits. Many Social Security employees have told him that they never understood the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset law until they heard his explanation.