The Social Security Administration can start hiring the judges needed to speed the processing of disability claims now that a new list of candidates qualified for the job is available.
This week, the Office of Personnel Management released a new roster of more than 600 ready-to-hire administrative law judges, said Mike Orenstein, a spokesman for the agency. ...
"Under our collective bargaining agreement, we have to let the existing ALJs who want to move into openings move first," said Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue. "We're required to go through a musical chairs process. That adds a couple of months to the process."
Nov 2, 2007
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Hiring new ALJs won't do any good at all, unless they hire enough support staff to work, schedule, write, mail, etc. the cases the judges hear...
Hiring ALJs won't do any good because the pending problem starts elsewhere.
I really like the way he is pinning the blame for not hiring ALJs now on the ALJ transfer process.
You make an offer, they say no, they say yes, you go to the next guy. What city has a 60 persontransfer list that equates to a couple months wait to get through the transfer list. DC only had about 15. If the site had 60 possibles, then it's a hot site, and someone in the top 3 on the transfer list is bound to nab it.
The article above regarding the CR sounds like the more likely reason for the delay. They didn't hire any judges last year, so they can't hire til the cr is over. or probably spend funds associated with such a huge effort.
what a load of bunk
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