That's A Relief

I have heard through the grapevine that Lisa De Soto misspoke in saying that there was a 140,000 increase in the number of new requests for hearing filed this year. There are several hundred people who can attest that this is what she said on Thursday at the conference of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) in Miami Beach, but it appears that that is not what she meant to say. Exactly what the 140,000 figure she mentioned represents is unclear, but apparently that number refers to the next several years rather than just this year.

This does not mean that all is well at Social Security. It just means that we are facing the emergency that we all are all familiar with, rather than that emergency plus an additional unexpected emergency.