| TOPICS - "S" | |
Mo. | Pg. | Year |
|---|
SEVERITY
 |
| Orellana v. Astrue, 547 F.Supp.2d 1169 (E.D.Wash. 2008) |
| JUL | 21 | 2008 |
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
|
| See Also, Re-Engineering/Re-Design/HPI,
Electronic Disability Process (eDIB), Disability Claims Process - Commissioner's Proposal
|
| Michael Astrue Confirmed as New Commissioner of SSA |
| JAN | 1 | 2007 |
| House Holds Hearing on Disability Backlogs: Will More
Funding Help? |
| FEB | 1 | 2007 |
| SSA's Budget Problem: Longer Waits, Decreased Service, Less Staff |
| FEB | 1 | 2007 |
| It's Official: Michael Astrue IS the Commissioner of Social Security |
| FEB | 2 | 2007 |
| Changes at SSA: What is the Future of DSI? |
| MAR | 1 | 2007 |
| Is SSA's Budget Forcast Improving? |
| MAR | 1 | 2007 |
| New Report on Improving the Disability Decision Process |
| MAR | 3 | 2007 |
| Baltimore NOSSCR Conference: SSA Addresses Backlog
Reduction Efforts |
| APR | 1 | 2007 |
| Online Appeals on the Horizon |
| APR | 2 | 2007 |
| Social Security Trust Funds Outlook Improves Slightly |
| APR | 7 | 2007 |
| SSA Publishes Semiannual Regulatory Agenda |
| APR | 9 | 2007 |
| Senate Hearing addresses SSA Backlog: Will Increased
Funding Help? |
| MAY | 1 | 2007 |
| New Reports from the Inspector General and the GAO:
Organizational Review of the Office of Disability and Income
Security Programs (A-12-07-27162 (May 2007)) |
| MAY | 7 | 2007 |
| The Commissioner's "Summary of Initiative to Eliminate the
SSA Hearings Backlog" |
| MAY | 12 | 2007 |
| SSA Budget Update: Backlogs Reaches All-Time High |
| JUL | 1 | 2007 |
| Proposed Rules Expand Quick Disability Determinations Nationwide |
| JUL | 4 | 2007 |
| New SSA Personnel Appointments Announced |
| JUL | 5 | 2007 |
| Are More Disability Claims Process Changes Coming Your
Way Soon? (Amendment to the Attorney Advisory
Program; Proposed Termination of FedRo; Proposed
Replacement of DRB) |
| JUL | 6 | 2007 |
| Attorney Advisor Program Returns (72 Fed Reg. 44763) |
| AUG | 1 | 2007 |
| Is the Demise of DSI on the Horizon? Proposed Rule Suspends
New FedRO Appeals |
| AUG | 3 | 2007 |
| Federal Register Update: Private Printing of Forms, Applications,
and Publications - 72 Fed. Reg. 45991 (Aug.16, 2007) |
| AUG | 8 | 2007 |
| NOSSCR Letter to Commissioner,
re: DSI Federal Reviewing Official Level |
| AUG | 9 | 2007 |
| NOSSCR Comments on Quick Disability Determination
Proposed Rule |
| AUG | 14 | 2007 |
| SSA Enters a New year; What Does the Future Hold? |
| SEP | 1 | 2007 |
| Message from Commissioner Astrue to SSA Employees |
| SEP | 10 | 2007 |
| Changes Proposed to the ALJ and Appeals Process: Does
Administrative Efficiency Trump Fairness? |
| OCT | 1 | 2007 |
| Commissioner Astrue Speaks at NOSSCR Conference |
| OCT | 1 | 2007 |
| NOSSCR Comments on Federal Reviewing Officials Proposed Rule |
| OCT | 8 | 2007 |
| Proposed Rule on ALJ, Appeals Council and Decision Review Board
(72 Fed. Reg. 61218 (Oct.29, 2007) |
| OCT | 27 | 2007 |
| SSA Budget Update |
| NOV | 1 | 2007 |
| Survey on Recent ODAR and SSA Initiatives |
| NOV | 1 | 2007 |
| NOSSCR Survey: Current ODAR and SSA Practice Issues |
| NOV | 4 | 2007 |
| OIG Report on The SSA 800-Number Automation Service |
| NOV | 7 | 2007 |
| GAO Report: Social Security Reform: Issues for Disability
and Dependent Benefits, GAO-08-26 (Oct. 2007) |
| NOV | 7 | 2007 |
| National Hearing Center: Open for Business |
| DEC | 1 | 2007 |
| SSA FY 08 Budget is Final |
| DEC | 1 | 2007 |
| Comment Period Closes for Proposed Appeals Changes:
What does the Future Hold? |
| DEC | 1 | 2007 |
| NOSSCR Comments on Appeals Process Proposed Regulations |
| DEC | 8 | 2007 |
| Compassionate Allowances Outreach Hearing: Obtaining
Evidence of Rare Diseases Can Be Difficult |
| DEC | 3 | 2007 |
| SSA Suspends Part of Proposed Rule Changing Appeals Process |
| JAN | 1 | 2008 |
| Demise of the FedRO? SSA suspends New FedRO Appeals |
| JAN | 3 | 2008 |
| Letter from Commissioner Astrue to Chairman McNulty |
| JAN | 12 | 2008 |
| Letters from Commissioner Astrue AMA & AHA |
| JAN | 14 | 2008 |
| SSA's Proposed Budget for 2009: Will the Backlog Crisis
and Staffing Problems Improve? |
| FEB | 1 | 2008 |
| SSA Budget Update: What Lies Ahead? |
| MAR | 1 | 2008 |
| Congratulations to the Newest ALJs! |
| MAR | 2 | 2008 |
| Social Security Trust Funds' Outlook remaining Stable |
| MAR | 7 | 2008 |
| NOSSCR Letter on FY 2009 Budget |
| MAR | 10 | 2008 |
| Federal Register Update: Attorney Advisor final rule |
| MAR | 26 | 2008 |
| Federal Register Update: The "Prototype" and
"Single Decisionmaker" tests return to Region I |
| MAR | 26 | 2008 |
| Federal Register Update: Collection of Information |
| MAR | 26 | 2008 |
| Where Are the New ALJs Assigned? |
| APR | 2 | 2008 |
| Compassionate Allowance Outreach Hearing Focuses on
Cancer Cases |
| APR | 5 | 2008 |
| SSA Speakers at NOSSCR Conference: Update on Backlog Reduction
and other SSA Initiatives |
| MAY-JUN | 1 | 2008 |
| Update on SSA's Budget: Are Improvements on the Line? |
| JUL | 1 | 2008 |
| More NOSSCR Members Become ALJs! |
| JUL | 2 | 2008 |
| New Nomination for SSA Principal Deputy Commissioner |
| JUL | 20 | 2008 |
| SSA Budget Situation Looks Bleak |
| SEP | 1 | 2008 |
| SSA Strategic Plan 2008- 2013 (excerpts) |
| SEP | 10 | 2008 |
| New SSA Strategic Plan: First Goal Is Elimination of
Hearings Backlog |
| SEP | 19 | 2008 |
SOCIAL SECURITY CARD/ SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS
|
| SSA Barred From Mailing "No-Match Letters"
(American Fedn of Labor v. Chertoff) |
| OCT | 14 | 2007 |
| Proposed Rules Would Limit Use of Federal Employees'
Social Security Numbers |
| JAN | 15 | 2008 |
SOCIAL SECURITY RULINGS
|
| Final Rule on Overpayment Waiver Personal Conferences
(rescinding SSR 94-4p) |
| JAN | 5 | 2008 |
| Practice Tip: Citing Social Security Rulings |
| MAR | 8 | 2008 |
STATISTICS
|
| ODAR: Pending Cases in Hearing Offices, 9/30/06 |
| JAN | 10 | 2007 |
| National Ranking Report: Processing time at
Hearing Offices 1/31/07 |
| FEB | 6 | 2007 |
| Disability Determinations and Appeals FY 2006, Title II, Concurrent,
and SSI and CDR Decisions |
| MAR | 15 | 2007 |
| ODAR National Ranking Report by Average Processing Time (5/07) |
| MAY | 16 | 2007 |
| ODAR National Ranking Report by Average Processing Time (7/07) |
| JUL | 8 | 2007 |
| Regional Office National Ranking Report by Average
Processing Time (7/07) |
| JUL | 11 | 2007 |
| Initial and Reconsideration Allowance and Denial Rates by State,
Title II, Title XVI & Concurrent: FY 2006 |
| JUL | 18 | 2007 |
| National Ranking Report: Processing time at
Hearing Offices 09/07/07 |
| SEP | 6 | 2007 |
| ODAR National Ranking report By Average Processing
Time (12/07) |
| NOV | 8 | 2007 |
| Chart: Hearings Office Claims Backlog and the Ratio of Hearing
Office Support Staff to ALJ, FY 1997-2006 |
| JAN | 9 | 2008 |
| ODAR Processing Times - National Ranking Report (2/29/08) |
| MAR | 22 | 2008 |
| Federal Register Update: Collection of Information |
| MAR | 26 | 2008 |
| Disability Determinations and Appeals FY 2007 - Title II,
Concurrent, SSI , workers, widows, DAC and children |
| APR | 11 | 2008 |
| National Ranking Report: By percentage of SSA cases over
365 days old, ending 3/28/08 |
| APR | 12 | 2008 |
| Initial and Reconsideration Allowance and Denial Rates by State,
Title II, Title XVI & Concurrent: FY 2007 |
| MAY-JUN | 24 | 2008 |
| National Ranking Report: Processing time at
Hearing Offices (6/2/08) |
| MAY-JUN | 32 | 2008 |
| National Ranking Report by Average Processing Time at
Hearing Offices (7/1/08) |
| JUL | 10 | 2008 |
| New House Bill Sets Time Limits at Hearing Level (HR 6485) |
| JUL | 16 | 2008 |
| National Ranking Report by Average Processing Time (7/31/08) |
| AUG | 8 | 2008 |
| National Ranking Report by Average Processing Time at
Hearing Offices (9/3/08) |
| SEP | 12 | 2008 |
| National Ranking Report by Average Processing Time at
Hearing Offices (11/5/08) |
| OCT | 10 | 2008 |
SUBSEQUENT APPLICATIONS
|
| Memorandum to Appeals Council from William Taylor re: Remand
Orders Involving Subsequent Allowance (Jan 7, 2007) |
| MAR | 10 | 2007 |
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
|
| Salazar v. Barnhart, 468 F.3d 615 (10th Cir. 2006) |
| JAN | 28 | 2007 |
| Blackwell v. Astrue, 522 F.Supp.2d 1347 (D.Kan. 2007) |
| MAR | 28 | 2008 |
| Mathious v. Barnhart, 490 F.Supp.2d 833 (E.D.Mich. 2007) |
| OCT | 21 | 2008 |
SUBSTANTIAL GAINFUL ACTIVITY
|
| Practice Tip: Are Payments to Foster Parents "Earnings"? |
| SEP | 12 | 2007 |
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME (SSI)
|
| See also, Aliens, Disabled Children, Substance Abuse |
| | | |
| Federal Register Update: reduced SSI for individuals in
medical facilities |
| MAR | 7 | 2007 |
| Hassbrock v. Barnhart, 457 F.Supp.2d 736 (S.D.Tex. 2006) |
| APR | 17 | 2007 |
| Final Rule on reduced SSI For Individuals In Medical Facilities |
| SEP | 4 | 2007 |
| 2008 COLA is 2.3 Percent |
| OCT | 3 | 2007 |
| Recent SSA Office of Inspector General Reports: Underpayments
on Prior SSI Records (8/07) |
| OCT | 15 | 2007 |
| GAO Studies Fee Withholding: SSA Disability Representatives:
Fee Payment Changes Show Promise, but Eligibility Criteria
and Representative Overpayments Require Further Monitoring,
GAO-08-5(Oct. 2007) |
| NOV | 3 | 2007 |
| Federal Register Update: SSI Parent-to-child deeming from
stepparents (72 Fed Reg. 72641 Dec.21, 2007) |
| DEC | 5 | 2007 |
| Federal Register Update: SSI parent-to-child deeming from
stepparents - final rule |
| MAY-JUN | 26 | 2008 |
| ODAR Lists Outdated Non-disability Regulations: Property
essential to self-support (SSI), Treansfer of assets penalty |
| JUL | 17 | 2008 |
| 2009 COLA is 5.8 Percent |
| OCT | 3 | 2008 |
SUPREME COURT
|
| Supreme Court Update 2006 |
| MAR | 2 | 2007 |
| Supreme Court Update: Collier v. Barnhart, 473 F.3d 444
(2nd Cir. 2007); Arcierno v. Barnhart, 475 F.3d 77
(2nd Cir. 2007) |
| MAY | 14 | 2007 |
| U.S. Supreme Court to Decide EAJA Case on Paralegal Work
(Richlin Security Service Company v. Chertoff) |
| DEC | 6 | 2007 |
| Supreme Court Holds EAJA Fees for Paralegals Reimbursable at
Market Rate (Richlin Security Service Co v. Chertoff) |
| JUL | 9 | 2008 |
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