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: The Illinois Family Lawyer

By Peter Olson, Esq.

Here's a frightening read about the pace that it's taking for the Social Security Administration to resolve Social Security Disability questions. The piece suggest SSDI appeals are taking some 3 years to process.

Of the roughly 2.5 million disability applicants each year now, about two-thirds are turned down initially by state agencies, which make decisions with federal oversight based on paper records but no face-to-face interview. Most of those who are refused give up at that point or after a failed request for local reconsideration.

But of the more than 575,000 who go on to file appeals ? putting them in the vast line for a hearing before a special federal judge ? two-thirds eventually win a reversal.

I'm not sure what's more concerning, the long wait time or the fact that such a large percentage of cases are overturned on appeal.

Full post as published by The Illinois Family Lawyer on December 10, 2007 (boomark / email).