Job Openings for Commissioner's Plan?

Social Security has just announced job openings in Boston, MA, Portland, ME, Providence, RI and Manchester, NH for case technicians. These are all in Social Security's Region I, which is where implementation of the Commissioner of Social Security's proposal in supposed to begin. These job openings may be associated with the Commissioner's plan to alter the disability adjudication process. There have been few other announcements of job openings at SSA in recent weeks. Applications for all of the positions are supposed to be sent to the Regional Office rather than to individual Hearing Offices.