Oct 8, 2006

Attorney Fee Payments For September

Social Security has released the September statistics on payments of fees to attorneys and others eligible for direct payment of fees for representing Social Security claimants. Payments were up 16% in September over August 2006 and up 30% over August 2005.

Fee Payments

Month/Year Volume Amount
Jan-06
18,752
$64,848,326.02
Feb-06
20,426
$70,312.586.15
Mar-06
26,227
$91,045,934.83
Apr-06
23,042
$79,714,961.76
May-06
23,581
$82,015,869.29
June-06
27,771
$97,085,724.60
July-06
21,432
$74,648,883.83
August-06
24,579
$85,528,548.61
Sept-06
28,968
$99,124,616.47

Fee payments also include payments made to eligible non-attorneys participating in the demonstration project authorized by section 303 of the Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-203).

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