If you have read various posts on this and other Social Security disability blogs, you will note that there has been a lot of discussion about the delays that plague the system. In the Atlanta hearing offices, for example, hearings are now just being scheduled for applications that extend back two or three years. Social [...]
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CBS News is conducting an on-going investigation into the chaotic Social Security disability system and the outrageous delays that have become commonplace. The report includes interviews with claimants who are clearly deserving, but who have suffered extreme financial and personal hardship because of extensive delays. Here is part one of the CBS report. www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml [...]
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The New York Times reports that a court battle over a Social Security Administration policy designed to punish employers who hire illegal aliens may have the unintended result of increasing delays in the Social Security Disability decision making process. Earlier this month a federal judge blocked Social Security from sending out letters to employers advising [...]
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Dear Jonathan, Hello. I have a question concerning my court hearing please. On May 17th, 2007, I went to my disability hearing. 2 months later I contacted them to find out my status and they told me the decision was made the day I went to court. I continued to wait and still heard nothing. [...]
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With delays in Social Security disability cases reaching three years, it was inevitable that settlement advance funding would be adapted to include Social Security disability cases. Yesterday, a company called AnyLawSuits.com purchased a site review from me through Reviewme.com, which is a marketplace that allows website owners to purchase blog reviews. I thought that AnyLawSuits.com’s [...]
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The staffing and case backlog crisis at the Social Security Administration was the subject of a front page article in USA Today on Monday, July 30, 2007. The article noted that SSA has over 745,000 cases pending with the average wait for a hearing at 17 months. In Atlanta, Georgia, where I practice, the wait [...]
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jonathan, i have had fibro., chronic severe depression for years withrecent dx. of recent dx of some short term memory loss. i have a lawyer case has been somewhere in greensboro nc courts for two years now. all my problems have gotten worse and i do report in every time i see all all my [...]
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I applyed in the end of July of 2005 and completed everything that they wanted and now it has been almost 8 months and still nothing I tried calling and she isn’t calling me back and haven’t recieved anything in the mail. –Jessie Jonathan Ginsberg responds: Jessie, you don’t say where you live, but it [...]
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I applied for SSD pension almost 6 month ago and have still no answer. Howe long can SSA try to starve you out. I`m also from Germany and ask myself what`s going on. I know there is a treaty with Germany caled totalisation agreemebt. When I went to SSA and applied for supplement SSD they [...]
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