Social Security Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) have frequently been criticized for inconsistency. Some Social Security ALJs approve 90% or more of the disability claims they hear. Others approve less than 20%. A report on the Cox News Service shows that this sort of inconsistency is not just a Social Security problem. Immigration judges making decisions on applications for asylum show a similar pattern of inconsistency, with one immigration judge approving 90% of asylum applications while another approves only 3%. One interesting aspect of this report is that the Office of Immigration Review released the data in a manner which shows what each judge did, by name. Social Security has released similar data, but refused to identify ALJs by name.
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