Conditions on SSA "Compassionate Allowance" List Get Quicker Decisions
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Dear Mr. Cavuto, I heard part of your interview with Dan Mitchell of the CATO Institute this afternoon. From hearing that segment I can say that Mr. Mitchell needs to do some homework on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
This succinct description of the forms needed to start a disability insurance claim appeared in the Modesto Bee on January 24, 2011. The text was furnished to the paper by the SSA.
A Social Security (SS) claims representative says filing claims online is like "tossing blank applications up in the air and hoping for the best."
Decision makers at SSA’s first level of appellate review (“reconsideration” in most states) find it hard to assess claimants’ credibility and subjective symptoms because they do not see the claimant. Therefore cases which turn on these questions tend to get passed upstairs to Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) instead of being awarded by reconsideration level decision makers. These cases typically are ones that don’t satisfy a Listing and require assessment of residual functional capacity (RFC).

Should Social Security close its offices to the public one day a week, to test whether or not employees process their work better? The Commissioner of Social Security floated the idea of testing this in thirty offices, in remarks made at a ceremony August 9, 2006, at the SSA Teleservice Center in Auburn, Washington.