New ALJ Promised For Rochester

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:

A Social Security Administration official has promised to place a new judge in its Rochester satellite office to help ease the backlog of pending disability cases in the area, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said this week.

Legislators and advocates raised concerns last month after Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue announced 10 new administrative law judges throughout New York to help take on the mounting requests for appeals hearings but assigned none to Buffalo. The Buffalo office, which handles most local cases, traditionally had one of the country's longest processing times.