Social Security News

    An e-mail I received from Social Security: The Office of Hearings Operations (OHO) is pleased to announce the release of the Represent...

      Social Security makes periodic general voluntary releases of materials for which Freedom Of Information Act requests have been made. T...

      Social Security has issued a newly amended section of its HALLEX Manual on Rules and Standards Governing The Conduct Of Representative...

      I recently received the message reproduced below. I'm sure that other attorneys who represent claimants have received the same mes...

      The new regulations on representation of claimants and payments to the entities that represent claimants will appear in the Federal R...

      The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has cleared Social Security's proposed final rules on the recognition of law firms repr...

      It's June 21. Social Security is today demanding that I tell them which days I'm available for hearings in December. That'...

      I wrote about the reach, and perhaps overreach, of Social Security's controls on fees for representation  before the agency in 20...

      It's official. The fee cap on the amount that attorneys can charge Social Security claimants is going up to $9,200 on November 30.

      The Social Security Administration has asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve two sets of proposed regulations.   ...

      I used to post newly released numbers on payments of fees to attorneys and others for representing Social Security claimants. Somethin...

      From Social Security's FOIA Reading Room : Click on image to view full size

      The Social Security Administration has posted an updated list of "Registered and Unregistered Sanctioned Representatives."  ...

      It’s a slow time in Social Security world so let me reprise a post from almost ten years ago. The themes coming from shills have chang...

      For some time now attorneys like me who represent Social Security claimants have had a problem with field offices delaying processing ...

    A television station in Denver presents the now all too familiar story of a disabled person becoming homeless because of delays in proc...