February 3, 2010
Essentially, it is a numbers game. There are not enough judges to handle the caseload. The Appeals Council gets approximately 100,000 appeals per year. In 2008, they only processed 81,000 appeals. Because there are more appeals each year than they can handle, they just keep getting further and further behind. The current average processing-time is 261 days. [...]
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January 9, 2010
Federal Court appeals are very complex, and the details of what is involved in appealing a Social Security case to Federal Court can take up several books worth of information. This is just a short outline of what you can expect if your case is denied by the Appeals Council and you have to appeal to [...]
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