Dec 18, 2019
Dec 17, 2019
Offices Closed On Christmas Eve
President Trump has signed an executive order closing federal offices on December 24.
Ability To Opt Out Of Video Hearings Preserved
Social Security is publishing final rules tomorrow on Setting the Manner for the Appearance of Parties and Witnesses at a Hearing. The ability to opt out of video hearings is preserved.
Dec 16, 2019
A Brutal Game Of Chance
From the Post & Courier of Charleston, SC:
Sick and injured workers face a brutal game of chance when they apply for federal disability benefits: their odds hinge as much on the judge they are assigned as on the facts of their case. ...
Draw one particular Charleston-area judge and the odds of winning benefits will be worse than almost anywhere else. That judge, Tammy Georgian, was the second-toughest in the country in the 2019 fiscal year, approving only 12 percent of her cases. ...
If you saw Judge Jim Scott [of the same office] in 2018, you had an 87 percent chance of winning. ...
I can tell you there’s no way an ALJ can get to a 12% reversal rate honestly. You have to be guided almost completely by your personal political and social beliefs rather than the law and the facts.
There’s only so much the agency can do about brutal Administrative Law Judges such as Tammy Georgian. The thing is that Georgian is the Chief Administrative Law Judge in the North Charleston Office. They can’t easily fire aberrant ALJs but they don’t have to make them the Chief ALJ for a hearing office.
Dec 15, 2019
Dec 14, 2019
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