April 13, 2010
Social Security uses what it calls a “sequential five-step process” to decide disability claims. As you work your way through the steps, if you do not meet the requirement of a step, Social Security can deny you. We will discuss each step in a separate post. Please keep in mind that alot of the terms used by Social [...]
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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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