Since I have started posting about the new Social Security hearing office opening in Fayetteville, NC, I suppose I will just keep posting updates until the office is fully open. The office was supposed to open in February 2010. The picture is of the building where the office is to be located and it is recent. However, the office has now opened at a temporary location not far away. It remains unclear whether any hearings will be held at the temporary location.
Update: I hear that the new office is not yet ready to handle electronic files, that for now all their cases will be paper files. I guess this is the sort of start-up problem that Mr. Sklar warned about last week. Local attorneys are struggling with an even more basic start-up problem at the moment. We do not know the telephone number of the new office. Even with the problems, we are happy to have the office open. It has been needed for at least 20 years.
Update: I hear that the new office is not yet ready to handle electronic files, that for now all their cases will be paper files. I guess this is the sort of start-up problem that Mr. Sklar warned about last week. Local attorneys are struggling with an even more basic start-up problem at the moment. We do not know the telephone number of the new office. Even with the problems, we are happy to have the office open. It has been needed for at least 20 years.
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I'm surprised at how poorly the agency has communicated to practitioners how to actually get in touch with all these new offices and conveying what areas they are serving. The SSA website's hearing office locator doesn't even list the St Petersburg office as existing even though its one of the new offices that has been open the longest (and offices that opened this week are already listed). Some of the field offices listed for Atlanta Downtown don't even exist anymore (East Point moved to a different town and was renamed Southlake at least 10 years ago). many of the new and open offices in Region V don't list any field offices or phone numbers
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