The article in today's Charlotte Observer concerning backlogs in the Charlotte, NC hearing office may not be the only article along these lines to expect. The Charlotte Observer article indicates that the reporter collected data on individual Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) productivity (and I know that he collected information on ALJ reversal rates as well) from all of Social Security's hearing offices in the Carolinas (and by the way, as a North Carolinian, let me make it clear that there is no geographic entity which may properly be referred to as "Carolina" -- the reference should always be to the Carolinas). The Charlotte Observer is part of the McClatchy chain of newspapers. McClatchy also owns newspapers in Raleigh, NC, Rock Hill, SC, Columbia, SC, Myrtle Beach, SC, Beaufort, SC and Bluffton, SC. There may well be a series of articles in these other newspapers having to do with productivity and reversal rates of ALJs in the other hearing offices in the Carolinas.
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