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      Social Security has posted an announcement that it is accepting applications for Administrative Law Judge positions. The announcement...

      Posters on an online message board mostly frequented by wannabe Administrative Law Judges seem convinced that Social Security will soo...

      From Government Executive : Officials with a union that represents administrative law judges at the Social Security Administration ar...

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      Over the last few months there's been a dramatic increase in the wait time to receive a decision from an Administrative Law Judge ...

      It’s a slow time in Social Security world so let me reprise a post from almost ten years ago. The themes coming from shills have chang...

      Social Security's Office of Inspector General has issued a report on Administrative Law Judge Trends .     Below are three charts ...

     Social Security wanted to fire Administrative Law Judge Michael Levinson of Macon, GA for some very unjudicial conduct. The Merit Syst...

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      From What Factors Explain the Drop in Disability Insurance Rolls from 2015 to 2019? by Siyan Liu and Laura D. Quinby for the Center f...

      Some of Social Security’s Administrative Law Judges really don’t like that Washington Post piece on all the federal court remands of...

      Lisa Rein at the Washington Post has written an article on how frequently Social Security loses when denied disability claimants appea...

     Not that there was any doubt, but Social Security has decided to make telephone and video hearings a permanent option.     This is ex...

     When I read that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received private extremely valuable considerations  from those interested in the...

    Republicans in the House of Representatives have put forth their plan for what that they hope to extort from the President by threatenin...

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     The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision yesterday in Shelley C. v. Commissioner of Social Security .     The C...