Social Security News

      Attorneys who represent Social Security disability claimants may find the recent decision of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Hultz...

      Social Security is trying to worm its way out of the federal courts applying the new rule changing past relevant work from 15 years to...

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

      The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled against a patent application that promises to determine whether ...

      From the Court's summary of the 9th Circuit's decision in Kaufmann v. Kijakazi , decided on April 27, 2022: ... Claimant chall...

      From the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' summary of its April 22, 2022 opinion in Woods v. Kijakazi : ... [T]he panel held that rece...

      I had written recently about Social Security's inability to react to an adverse ruling by a court at anything other than a glacial...

      On August 24, 2020 the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Maxwell v. Saul , 971 F.3d 1128, holding that coming up with ...

      Some stories from the weekend: Washington Post article on Social Security's field office problems; Nancy Altman urges an end to ...

      From WTVQ : Hundreds of Social Security disability recipients in Appalachia who were victimized by now-disbarred attorney Eric C. Co...

        The report shown below was obtained from Social Security by the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives ...

      From a notice of rescission of acquiescence published in the Federal Register today: ... On September 23, 2015, we published AR [Acqu...

      From the Indiana Lawyer : A split 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed a grant of summary judgment to the Social Security Admi...

     The vast majority of Eric Conn's former clients reside in Kentucky. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals , whose territory includes K...

     The First Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion in the case of U.S. v. Vallelo-Madero holding that it is an unconstitutio...

     After the Supreme Court held in Lucia v. SEC that Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) as then appointed were unconstitutional, there wa...

     From Bloomberg Law : A former attorney adviser with the Social Security Administration convinced the Federal Circuit Nov. 7 that h...

     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...

     From WLEX : ... On Sunday, attorneys filed a pleading in Federal Court seeking class action relief for the more than 800 former cl...

     In Hicks v. Berryhill the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held unconstitutional the process that the Social Security Administration had ...