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A Study Of Social Security Disability Litigation In The Federal Courts, Jonah B. Gelbach, David Marcus
A Study Of Social Security Disability Litigation In The Federal Courts, Jonah B. Gelbach, David Marcus
All Faculty Scholarship
A person who has sought and failed to obtain disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (“the agency”) can appeal the agency’s decision to a federal district court. In 2015, nearly 20,000 such appeals were filed, comprising a significant part of the federal courts’ civil docket. Even though claims pass through multiple layers of internal agency review, many of them return from the federal courts for even more adjudication. Also, a claimant’s experience in the federal courts differs considerably from district to district around the country. District judges in Brooklyn decide these cases pursuant to one set of procedural rules …
Adjudicasaurus Rex, Jeffrey S. Wolfe
Adjudicasaurus Rex, Jeffrey S. Wolfe
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
This article proposes a simple theme. While many issues plague the Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income programs, only reform of the hearings and appeals process can solve the decades-long (and growing) hearings backlog. Only then, can the remaining questions regarding the solvency of the DI trust fund be meaningfully addressed. As it now stands, the ongoing backlog of pending hearings and appeals feeds the twin plagues of rising costs and increasing delay. These are the very issues that drove the federal courts in the passage of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 (CJRA). This article provides …
A Specialized Court For Social Security? A Critique Of Recent Proposals, Robert E. Rains
A Specialized Court For Social Security? A Critique Of Recent Proposals, Robert E. Rains
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
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