I have noted on occasion that even though the Social Security Administration is the largest employer in Baltimore County the local newspapers largely ignore the agency. I can now report that the Baltimore Sun has published an article on Social Security's appeal backlogs and efforts to hire more Administrative Law Judges. There is nothing in the article that would be news to anyone who reads this blog regularly.
This article quotes OPM strongly defending the quality and utility of the ALJ hiring list that was reactivated in July 2003. However, Barnhart told the Subcommittee that OPM tried to prevent SSA from using that list in September 2003. So what's real story here?
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