This Times article from about a week ago about the wait to get Social Security disability benefits was seriously disturbing, and especially so for someone who worked as a claims representative for SSA only a few years ago. I knew the wait for a decision was long, but my ballpark guess for a mean wait time for a hearing would have been 15 months, not 3 years. (In fact, I've advised a number of people with the 15 month figure.) I don't have any issue with the Times's analysis of the crisis, but I will mention a couple items that I always felt contributed to the wait times.
First of all, there is the fee for lawyers who represent applicants through the process. These benefits are standardized by administrative law, and amount to 1/4 of all back pay due, up to a limit. This means that up to a certain point, the lawyer has a great financial incentive to delay the process, because a speedy favorable decision will actually decrease the pay he receives. This law is appalling and should be changed.
The other odd thing about the process is that applicants who are initially denied by SSA are required to apply for a reconsideration of the original decision by SSA before they can apply for an administrative hearing. This may be how things always work across all administrative bodies in the government (I'm certainly no expert), but in my experience at SSA the second decision was virtually guaranteed to be the same as the first. This seems like an awful waste of both of the bureaucracy's energy and of the applicant's time.
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