I'm hearing from North Carolina Disability Determination Services (DDS) that they have no more funds to pay for consultative medical examinations and are having some trouble paying for those which have already been held. They also lack funds to obtain existing medical records on clients. These problems will progressively slow disability determinations in this state. I imagine that the circumstances are much the same in other states.
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We're seeing them make decisions without obtaining the records and without obtaining CEs on cases they otherwise would.
Here in Indiana they've stopped the CEs (it looks like). I'm also told the DDB has a skeleton staff and is only processing critical cases
Well that will give a huge economic boost to lawyers!!!
That's crazy, I work in DPB and it is business as usual, just unable to process CDRs, however Inials, Recons, and CE and records requests have not changed.
Not surprising the states don’t have the money to cover DDS costs for more than a couple of weeks. NC won’t be the only one!
NJ CE's have been stopped for a while.
Well isn't that nice to see how Trump benefitted Commissioner Frankenstein!
Trump appointee dodges $300M loss by joining administration: report
Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration Frank Bisignano may have saved millions in stock losses by joining President Donald Trump's administration, according to a new report.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that Bisignano was forced to sell his stock holdings in Fiserv, a financial services company that he ran before moving to Washington, D.C. His family netted around $560 million, according to the report.
Bisignano's move coincided with a precipitous drop in Fiserv's stock price after the company's new CEO, Michael Lyons, said the company's previous forecasts were "too optimistic," the report adds.
The company's stock fell 50% by the end of the day on Tuesday, which would have wiped out roughly $315 million in value for Bisignano's stock holdings, according to the report.
“Over the last few years, decisions to defer certain investments and cut certain costs improve margins in the short term, but are now limiting our ability to serve clients in a world-class way, execute product launches to our standards and grow revenue to our full potential,” Lyons told analysts on Wednesday, according to the Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/frank-bisignano-fiserv-stock-price.html
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