Updated stats are out on payments of fees to attorneys and others for representing Social Security claimants, mostly on disability claims. See below. Since claimants are paid at about the same time as their attorneys, this tells you roughly how good or poor a job Social Security is doing in implementing disability benefits after a favorable decision. Obviously, October was a terrible month.
Fee Payments | ||
|---|---|---|
| Month/Year | Volume | Amount |
Jan-11 | 34,467 | $113,459,847.04 |
Feb-11 | 33,305 | $107,796,771.38 |
Mar-11 | 34,885 | $112,463,768.46 |
Apr-11 | 48,033 | $153,893,755.37 |
May-11 | 36,479 | $115,159012.77 |
June-11 | 33,568 | $104,782,743.07 |
July-11 | 40,451 | $123,981,011.36 |
Aug-11 | 35,575 | $109,778,785.74 |
Sept-11 | 36,159 | $109,990,042.36 |
Oct-11 | 27,269 | $79,526,149.33 |
Probably because we spent September doing redeterminations of people already on benefits rather than working claims! Had to meet the numerical goal for redeterminations, the heck with people waiting for their first check!
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:10-- you should have done a better job of working your redets throughout the year so you weren't playing catch up.
ReplyDeleteOh I did all of mine....so then at the last minute I had to do them for the CRs that didn't...as usual.....sigh.....
ReplyDeleteI work in PC7 as a claims authorizer, I input the awards for ALJ allowances of disability claims. We have gone from virtually unlimited overtime last year to zero overtime, as of October 1. This certainly has a lot to do with the decrease in attorney payments.
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