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We already knew Social Security benefits were rising 2.5% due to the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). We now know Medicare premiums will increase, as well, cutting into the increase for most recipients. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the part B premium for most recipients will increase by $10.30 from $174.70…
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Just when the Social Security Agency finally had a progressive, engaged commissioner in former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland, he’s gone. Effective November 29th Martin O’Malley is resigning to run for chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Among other positive changes made during O’Malley’s all too brief tenure as commissioner was modification of…
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Summer 2021 Newsletter STILL STANDING…AND PRACTICING I published the first issue of Social Security & You in Spring of 1993. Some years I’ve published more issues than others. The most recent issue was dated Spring 2019: over 2 years ago. The world was a much different place then. Especially for me. Read the full newsletter…
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Spring 2019 Newsletter An Opioid Story I’ve changed his name. Let’s call him Gerald. He was a laborer. And by that I don’t mean that he just did physical work. He was a card-carrying member the Labor’s Union local. And that meant a lot to him. I represented him for Social Security disability and Michigan…
5+ years ago
SECRET JUDGE PROGRAM TO END?
I announced on my website (www.misocialsecuritylawyer.com) several weeks ago that a reliable source had told me that the “secret judge” policy, instituted by the Social Security Administration in December 2011 would end shortly: perhaps as soon as a few weeks.
The program was created after perceived abuses by a couple of national law firms, which appeared to be dropping cases assigned to conservative judges.
Under attack from advocacy groups, including the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives (NOSSCR), SSA may be throwing in the towel. Law suites filed in the United States District Court under the Freedom of Information Act have proven successful. Earlier this year SSA started supplying the identity of the ALJ in response to these actions.
Well the secret judge program hasn’t ended yet.
The fate of the program will, no doubt, lie with the new Social Security Commissioner, once one is appointed. The term of the former Commissioner, Kenneth Astrue ended in January.
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