When will I find out if I won my case?
About Case Decisions
Fully favorable decisions are the ones we like. This means a claim has been awarded for the amount or which it was asked, and in a typical SSDI or SSI case it means a claimant won his or her benefits from the date that was argued during the hearing.
Partially favorable decisions usually indicate an ALJ found a claimant disabled, but not from the alleged disability date argued during the hearing.
Unfavorable decisions are unfortunate, but generally indicate the ALJ failed to find a claimant disabled at all. All decisions can be appealed to the Appeals Council, which reviews cases where there’s an abuse of discretion by the ALJ, an error in law, actions, findings or conclusions of the ALJ that are not supported by substantial evidence, or a broad based policy procedural issue that may affect the general public interest.
Unfortunately, calling the ALJ office or your Balin attorney to expedite the decision timetable won’t help. The decision will be made when the ALJ is ready to make it. Depending on the strength of a case, an ALJ will sometimes issue a bench decision at the hearing, meaning the client will leave the hearing room knowing they’ve secured a victory. An official decision will arrive by mail after the fact.
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