Social Security News

      This is from a Freedom of Information Act response that Social Security posted recently.

     Social Security has posted list of f ees paid for Vocational and Medical Experts at hearings for 2018. Basically, it's $77 for t...

     From three nearly identical contracting notices posted by the Social Security Administration: The SSA Office Disability Policy se...

     From Social Security Ruling 17-2p , which will be published in the Federal Register on Monday: At the hearings level or at the AC ...

     This wouldn't excuse Eric Conn, if the allegations against him are true, but does this sound familiar? Non-physician disability ...

     Social Security's handbook for medical expert witnesses at hearings before Administrative Law Judges is now available online. It ...

From an update to Social Security's HALLEX Manual : HALLEX Sections I-2-5-42 Obtaining Medical Expert Opinion Through Interrogatories ...

From a report of Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) produced in response to a Congressional request: On March 25, 2009...

Below is an e-mail that I have received that I am posting here with the writer's permission. One detail that might help identify the wr...

Commissioner Astrue spoke at the convention of the National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR) yesterday. I am told that he an...

Attorneys who represent claimants before the Social Security Administration and who wonder about how Medical Experts (MEs) are selected for ...

I took a look recently at the documents connected with Social Security's process for hiring physicians as Medical Experts (ME). This ca...