Social Security News

     From the White Mountain Independent , of all places: The Social Security Administration has lifted lifted the temporary suspension of ...

      The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the  Judicial Conference of the United States has produced a lengthy set of amendm...

      Yesterday, the Social Security Administration sent over to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed final regulations on Hea...

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

     From the syllabus of Smith v. Berryhill , a unanimous Supreme Court decision issued this morning:   An Appeals Council dismissal ...

     The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), a federal agency that does legal research and makes recommendations for fe...

     Professor Jon C. Dubin of Rutgers School of Law -- Newark Center for Law and Justice has written an article for the Georgetown Journa...

     From today's Federal Register : This final rule revises our rules regarding returning evidence at the Appeals Council (AC) lev...

     I'm curious about exactly how the Social Security Administration is approaching the 900 or so cases in Kentucky and West Virginia...

From a recent Bulletin issued by Social Security's Chief Administrative Law Judge: Remands of service area realignment cases in which t...

I have heard a credible report that New Hampshire will be reinstated as a "prototype" state in the disability redesign tests and t...

The procedural changes proposed by the Social Security Administration yesterday will cause significantly fewer disability claims to be appr...

I have heard some skepticism that the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in the Federal Register today really means that henceforth re...

My first reading was that the proposed rules concerning Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) decisions and the Review Board, which is to replace ...