An e-mail I received from Social Security:
The Office of Hearings Operations (OHO) is pleased to announce the release of the Representative Availability Portal (Portal) as part of the Enhanced Representative Availability Process (ERAP). The Portal is a dynamic, modern, and user-friendly website that allows representatives, through their Designated Scheduling Groups (DSGs), to provide us their availability for hearings. While you can still email your monthly availability to us if you choose, the Portal is a simpler and more convenient way to provide us your availability.
We plan to register Portal users over the next several months as part of a phased national rollout, ultimately offering the Portal as an option for all representatives in 2025. If you are interested in registering individuals to submit availability through the Portal on behalf of your DSG, please send an email ... to ...
Anything would be an improvement over the mess we've got now, both for attorneys and Social Security.
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The bigger question is if this online portal will actual work.
The online portal is active as of today. Seems to work fairly well, but did glitch out when I tried to filter for 2024 paid cases. (downloading multiple years worth of data works).
Confused about the requirement to register for a mySocialSecurity Account for EACH user of the new portal. In Region 10, we were sent a Scheduling Information email, which invites interested attorney reps to email and ask to be included in the early registration process, before it begins rolling out nationwide on a month to month basis. The invitation says: "Additionally, each individual Portal user must have their own my Social Security account, which is used for authentication purposes when accessing the Portal. We cannot begin the Portal registration process for any individual without a my Social Security account. Please identify the individuals you plan to register in the Portal for your DSG and ensure that they each have their own my Social Security account."
I can't understand the justification for that - why can't we use our Rep ID's and passwords?
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