Social Security News

     The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) compiles a yearly report on the attorney fees paid by federal agencies unde...

     When Social Security issues a final administrative decision denying disability benefits, a claimant may bring a civil action in Unite...

     After a Social Security disability claimant gets denied, appeals, gets denied again, appeals again, has a hearing and gets denied aga...

     Most claimants caught up in the Eric Conn mess in Kentucky and West Virginia have received decisions from Administrative Law Judges ...

     Social Security has recently released information on payments it has made under the Equal Access of Justice Act (EAJA), which shifts...

     Social Security has a webpage where anyone can submit their ideas for data sets that the agency should make available online. Submit...

     Some questions about the shutdown, for anyone who can answer them: What was it like in the office when employees came in Tuesday to b...

      From the San Francisco Chronicle : In a legal settlement that advocates described as the first of its kind, Social Security has agre...

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an opinion in Murkledove v. Astrue , holding that an attorney fee is "incurred" for pu...

If you wonder why the House of Representatives decided to cut off funding for attorney fee awards under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJ...

If you have wondered what is behind the vote in the House of Representatives to suspend payments under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA...

The House of Representatives has voted to suspend payments of attorney fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) for six months . EA...

From Kellems v. Astrue (5th Cir. December 16, 2010): In this social security case, we are asked to decide whether a federal court may order...

The Supreme Court has issued an opinion in Astrue v. Ratliff . No surprise. The government won. The Court held that an attorney fee under th...

From the National Law Journal : A majority of the Supreme Court appeared sympathetic on Monday to the Obama administration's arguments t...

The Legal Services Corporation has announced that the legal aid organizations it funds may now apply for and accept fees under fee shifting...

The SCOTUS Blog has started a Wiki for each case to be argued before the Supreme Court this term. One of these cases is Astrue v. Ratliff wh...

The Supreme Court has granted a writ of certiorari in the case of Astrue v. Ratliff. This means that the Supreme Court will hear the case. ...

The Supreme Court has denied the petition for a writ of certiorari in Manning v. Astrue , having to do with the issue of whether attorney’s ...

From the SCOTUS [Supreme Court of the United States] Blog's list of cases that have a reasonable change of being granted certiorari at ...