Social Security News

     This was obtained by the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) and published in their newslett...

     Posted in the newsletter of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) , which is not available ...

     Below is the Workload and Performance Summary for Social Security's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) for the m...

     Social Security has issued new instructions for Attorney-Advisor (AA) decisions (also called Senior Attorney decisions) after claima...

     Terrie Gruber was recently appointed to head Social Security's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR). The agency...

     From the Federal Eye column in the Washington Post: When The Post dug into the backlog for disability benefits at the Social Secu...

     I had recently wondered about the state of the senior attorney advisor decision program at Social Security. The newsletter of the Nati...

From today's Federal Register : We are revising the procedures for how claimants who receive fully favorable revised determinations bas...

From today's Federal Register : We are extending for 2 years our rule authorizing attorney advisors to conduct certain prehearing proced...

Social Security has just withdrawn a proposed amendmen t to its regulations that would have made permanent the authority of some of its sen...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is part of the White House, has posted this summary of a proposed regulation change which ...

From today's Federal Register : We are extending for two years our rule authorizing attorney advisors to conduct certain prehearing proc...

The Social Security Administration published final rules for the program that allows some attorney advisors employed by the agency to issue...

I have not yet seen one myself, but late today I heard multiple reports of senior attorney decisions received from different hearing offices...

Lisa De Soto, Social Security's Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR), spoke today at the Nati...

On August 9 Social Security adopted regulations allowing its senior attorneys to issue fully favorable decisions. I have not yet seen any st...

Effective today, Social Security has reinstituted the Senior Attorney program. The announcement appeared in today's Federal Register . H...

Each day the Office of Federal Register posts brief summaries of items they have received for publication in the Federal Register the next d...