The February 2008 issue of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) newsletter includes a form that can be used to request that an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) issue a fully favorable decision on the record (OTR or ORR for On Record Reversal), that is, without holding a hearing. Apparently, the form comes from the Social Security Administration, but Social Security will not post the form online until July, probably due to the need to meet the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act that requires approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for any new form.
I am attaching the form here, with NOSSCR's name and logo cropped out. Click on the images to view them full size.
I am attaching the form here, with NOSSCR's name and logo cropped out. Click on the images to view them full size.
You have to wonder whose brainchild this is? they routinely ignore the current on record memoranda, so now that they have a special form for it, it'll get scanned into the electronic folder, but with greater certainty that they can ignore it, and don't have to read it because they already know it's something they have no intention to act on. Primo! Thanks but I would still rather read and write a solid legal argument that is convincing. Not a form.
ReplyDeletePossibly this silliness was suggested by and tailored for a particular high volume firm that shall remain nameless
Forms mean nothing. I check no SGA but there is SGA. I check PRW but there is no PRW, forms aren't worth the paper they are printed on. For that matter, some decisions aren't worth the paper they're printed on. Bottom line, no matter how many forms they come up with, FIT included, the work that makes a legally sufficient decision needs to be still need to be done. There's no way around it people.
ReplyDeleteright on. and amen. The more you kowtow to bureaucracy, the less legally sufficient it tends to be
ReplyDeleteIt's not a matter of kowtowing to bureaucracy, it's a matter of recognizing the fact that each step of the sequential evaluation process requires analaysis. Analysis is not checking a box or, in the many instances the breaurcray would like you to believe occurs more often than not, a one sentence summary finding. Cases are not developed when they reach ODAR and, in a majoritiy of the cases, not developed when they leave ODAR. No one follows the letter of the law or their job duties. That standard is non existent at ODAR, the numerics standard reigns supreme. Bottom line, it's a joke!
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