The "user fee" deducted from payments of fees for representing Social Security claimants has now gone up to $79. This was effective for fees authorized on or after December 1. The maximum fee that may be paid an attorney was not adjusted for inflation, however, meaning that the net fee paid to attorneys for representing Social Security claimants was decreased due to inflation.
I guess the 30 some percent increase in 2002 from $4000 to $5300 was nothing?
ReplyDeleteThe processing fee was I believe supposed to be originally 6.5 percent of the fee and some how it got reduce to a max of $75 (I wonder who lobbied to get that changed?).
The SSDI program is for the benefit of attorneys. I knew the fix was in when I was doing BA work and the only benefit computation that gets rounded up is an attorney fee. Every other benefit computation gets rounded down.