Social Security News

      Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has belatedly posted four reports for the time period of June and July. I had ...

      I have cases at the Appeals Council whose status is variously given in ERE as Assigned to Adjudicator, Assigned to Analyst and Case Wo...

     From a letter sent by the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilties (CCD), the major umbrella group of organizations involved in hel...

     From Reuters : Facing an existential threat at the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear oral arguments on March 3 in a constituti...

     Social Security has posted data on the number of Appeals Council reviews per Administrative Law Judge in 2018 and the outcomes of th...

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): ... Administrative l aw judges (ALJ) decided 4...

     Andrew Saul was sworn in as Commissioner of Social Security on June 17. A few days later I posted a list of issues on Saul's doc...

     See below for an order from the Appeals Council concerning a case where an objection had been made to the consideration of the case b...

     SCOTUSblog has posted an analysis of yesterday's Supreme Court opinion in Smith v. Berryhill . As usual, it's excellent.

     The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has cleared a package of proposed regulations on Hearings Held by Administrative Appeals Ju...

     I posted on April 8 about the first Appeals Council remand that I had heard of referring to Lucia v. SEC , the Supreme Court case th...

     I have received the first report of a case remanded by Social Security's Appeals Council on account of the Supreme Court decision...

     SCOTUSblog has posted a detailed summary of yesterday's Supreme Court oral argument in Smith v. Berryhill , a case concerning wh...

     The Social Security Administration has announced that its offices in the Baltimore and Washington area will be closed on a Wednesday ...

     The Securities and Exchange Commission is remanding all cases pending before the full Commission for new hearings before different A...

     From a revised version of Social Security's Emergency Message EM-18003 on Important Information Regarding Possible Challenges to ...

     I said in an earlier post that I thought that because of the Supreme Court decision in Lucia v. SEC that the Appeals Council mi...

     The Solicitor General represents the federal government before the Supreme Court . This is from a memo from the Solicitor General to...

     An announcement from the Social Security Administration: We are pleased to announce a new online process for filing a Request for R...

     The Social Security Administration has issued Emergency Message EM-18004 on the implementation of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals d...