Social Security News

     Over the weekend Social Security added an Appeals Council Status Report feature to its online system. This allows attorneys and othe...

From Electronic Services for Claimant Representatives , a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (footnotes omitted): I...

I have heard from several attorneys who have tried to access e-file at the Appeals Council. No one seems to be able to access e-files there.

The National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) has sent out a notice to its members that Social Security ha...

I have reproduced below the contents of a letter that I received recently from Social Security. I am not sure whether this has been distribu...

Glenn Sklar, Social Security's Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR,) spoke yesterday at the s...

Social Security has posted some limited information about how those who represent Social Security claimants may sign up for internet access...

A few hundred attorneys already have online access to Social Security's electronic files. There is some frustration that this has not be...

The Nevada Daily Mail reports that "the week of Aug. 9-13 has been proclaimed Social Security eServices Week by Jayne Novak, mayor of...

Social Security has just issued a new section to its POMS manual dealing with attorney and representative access to their clients' elec...

There was an important development at the conference of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) last...

From the St. Petersburg Times : The days of automated phone calls, lines and long commutes could be coming to an end for local Social Securi...

From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) (emphasis added): Our objectives were to (1) assess the res...

Let me pass along a bizarre little detail about the current state of Social Security's electronic files. After a request for hearing is ...