Judges must now take judicial notice of all forms of reliable job data by the government. Learn how this can help disability claimants and how it affects them.
Read MoreThe Social Security Administration announced a new scheduling method for disability claimants. Chad Delesk explains this centralized scheduling unit here.
Read MoreAs rumors circled about the government shutting down, many disability claimants began wondering how they might be impacted. Social Security disability claimants with cases pending in federal court received a lump of coal on the day after Christmas courtesy of the partial government shutdown.…
Read MoreBalin Law joins Robert Fertel on Legal Lines Radio discussing Social Security disability changes. The interview is with Principal attorney, Paulette Balin and disability lawyer, Matthew Shupe. Some highlights of topics discussed during the interview are: Social Security disability standards (general requirements) Appealing Social Security…
Read MoreBreaking: Repeal of Popular Ohio Disability Financial Assistance Program The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services (ODJFS) quietly announced the end of the Disability Financial Assistance Program on 7/1/17. The only public discussion we at Balin Law have seen of the end of…
Read MoreThe Social Security Administration recently announced the repeal of the well-known and long standing treating physician rule. The treating physician rule offered certain procedural safeguards to individuals applying for disability benefits under any of Social Security’s programs. What is the treating physician rule under…
Read MoreWhile SSA is pushing for more disability and retirement benefit recipients to sign up for electronic payment in lieu of a paper check, scammers are working harder than ever to put those benefits in their own bank accounts. For example, some Social Security benefit…
Read MoreThe Social Security Administration is continuing to make more and more of their services available online. After what seemed to be a test-run over the last several months, claimants can now electronically sign their SSA-827 form for disability applications and appeals. The purpose of…
Read MoreDisability claims are driven by medical records. Unfortunately, the process of requesting and obtaining medical records is the most frequent source of delay in the disability determination process. SSA requests over 15 million copies of medical records from over 500,000 providers each year to…
Read MoreIn fiscal years 2010 and 2011, 82,000 disability cases were transferred from SSA’s 10 regions to National Hearing Centers (NHC) in Falls Church, VA, Albuquerque, NM, Chicago, IL, Baltimore, MD and St. Louis, MO. Here, video teleconferencing (VTC) technology is used to connect the…
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