Social Security News

      The Social Security Administration has posted final rules on Setting the Manner of Appearance of Parties and Witnesses at Hearings . T...

      The common wisdom is that claimants receive the same decision whether their hearing is in person, over the telephone and by video but ...

      The Social Security Administration has posted a Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) in the Federal Register to make official the av...

     Not that there was any doubt, but Social Security has decided to make telephone and video hearings a permanent option.     This is ex...

      Yesterday I received word through the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) that the number of h...

      Vague though it may be, Social Security has released its reopening plan . It certainly allows many employees to continue working from ...

      Social Security has posted numbers showing how many video hearings it has held recently. These are hearings where the claimant is a...

     I had a telephone call yesterday with Sheila Lowther, the Regional Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Social Security’s Region IV, ...

     Social Security has issued an official announcement about video hearings. Interestingly, the announcement talks only about video hearin...

      I posted yesterday that the Microsoft Teams app that Social Security plans to use to hold Administrative Law Judge hearings wasn't...

     Beginning in November Social Security is planning to use the Microsoft Teams app for Administrative Law Judge video hearings during th...

      I understand from the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) that Social Security is hoping to of...

     The Covid-19 emergency isn't going away soon. The Department of Health and Human Services is planning based upon an assumption...

     Social Security Administrative Law Judges are talking about holding hearings by telephone. I don't even like video hearings. I un...

     Social Security is publishing final rules tomorrow on Setting the Manner for the Appearance of Parties and Witnesses at a Hearing . ...

     The House Appropriations Committee has reported out the bill that includes the appropriation for the Social Security Administration&...

     From a press release : Top Democrats responsible for Social Security policy in the House and Senate yesterday called on the Social...

     From a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) that the Social Security Administration will publish in the Federal Register tomorrow: ...

     On October 29 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the publication of proposed new regulations that would allow the So...

     The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved publication of proposed new Social Security regulations on Setting the Manner ...