What is taking so long?

May 30, 2008 by Dirk.

It takes an incredible amount of time to get your hearing for Social Security Disability. This month I have had 2 clients who died while waiting for their hearing. This is going on all over the country. In Central Illinois, it takes over 2 years to get a hearing.  The Federal government has proposed a number of ideas to improve on their record and get to the hearing sooner. They want to hire more judges, improve the computer systems, expanded medical expert review. My suspicion is that there will not be much improvement.  What are some of your ideas?

• How about giving more authority to local office personnel to find someone disabled. 
• Give the attorneys more power to find a person disabled. 
• Restructure the computer programs to pick out the more serious cases and put them at the front of the line. 
• Do the same for weak cases and flush them out of the system sooner.  

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