DAP Coordinator Retires

July 1, 2007

Author: Catherine M. Callery (Kate) | Louise M. Tarantino

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly…and Barbara Samuels has got to be the  Social Security expert that everyone goes to with questions large and small.  A statewide DAP coordinator in New York City since 1987, Barbara has represented clients too numerous to count, provided substantive trainings galore, answered frequent disability inquiries from across the State, and still found time to write a three volume tome on Social Security practice and procedure.  This epitome of an effective legal services attorney recently bid farewell to the mean streets of Manhattan for greener acres in Arkansas.

Barbara’s fans both in New York City and upstate New York will miss her wealth of knowledge and her dry sense of humor.  Luckily, many of her fantastic training outlines are still in circulation and we hope to be able to convince her to keep them up-to-date!  Barbara will continue to share her vast expertise with us by participating on the DAP list serve, so all is not lost. 

We wish Barbara many relaxing and fruitful years of retirement, once she stops fighting with the Social Security Administration about her retirement checks.  They at the agency don’t know what they are in for.  Good luck Barbara - you will be sorely missed in our DAP world.

 Barbara Samuels and Victor Torres, DAP Advocates