June 3, 2010
If your claim is denied by a judge, and you appeal to the Appeals Council, your only option for appeal at that point is to appeal it to the federal court. In most cases, you have only 60 days from the date you received the denial to file your appeal. (Some cases only get 30 [...]
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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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