From the Lexington Herald-Dispatch:
The Social Security Administration has until 5 p.m. Thursday to respond to attorneys who seek an injunction to block the immediate suspension of disability benefits to more than 900 people, according to a court order entered Wednesday. ...
U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar scheduled a telephonic hearing on the injunction for 3 p.m. Friday.
[The attorney's] motion, filed late Tuesday, linked as many as three suicides to the suspension notices. He first learned of an Ivel, Ky., man's death, whose widow he cited in saying the client shot himself Monday. ...
U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins, R-W.Va., and U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., called upon Social Security to give each person more time to provide medical records to support their original claim, according to letters sent to Social Security's Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin. ...
I'm a retired ALJ and I say shame on SSA!! The claimants/beneficiaries were likely not a part of the scheme and knew nothing. The reasoning is absurd!!!
ReplyDeleteWhatever. All or at least most of them knew or should have known what their rep(s) is/r doing. Files full of evidence from sources they never saw or who found/opined about things not even clts themselves alleged... C'mon. Yeah, let them keep the $ they don't deserve and, even better, guarantee them more $ for rest of their lives regardless of age, edu, current work activity, or severity of impairments. Oh, yes, and add some more for their kids till they don't get on SSI themselves for life. Hmm, i think i should run for an elected office, w this program/promises I'll b undeafetable! ;)
ReplyDeleteI work for the Agency and I agree that some of these claimants should have questioned the reports from these doctors,although some are not well educated and probably would not have thought it was odd. I would like to at least see SSA offer benefit continuation to these claimants until their cases are reevaluated. What happened in Huntington was inexcusable, and Eric Conn should have been barred from representing claimants a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteThe Herald-Dispatch is actually located in Huntington, West Virginia.
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