The SSI Coalition has published its September-October Newsletter. Despite the name, this excellent newsletter covers all of Social Security disability benefits. Since the SSI Coalition is based in Massachusetts, the Newsletter has extensive coverage of the Disability Service Improvement (DSI) project currently underway in Social Security's Boston Region. A few highlights:
- As of October 12 there were already 15,000 DSI cases.
- As of September 29, there were only 15 Federal Reviewing Officer claims pending. That will certainly change dramatically in the near future. Indeed, it has probably already changed dramatically.
- Only 30 Federal Reviewing Officers have been hired as of last report, but that number should already be up to 70.
- Only 5 nurse case managers have been hired.
- Commissioner Barnhart believes that Denver will be the next region for DSI, but, of course, Barnhart will not be around to decide whether DSI will be expanded to any region, much less the Denver Region.
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