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About time. Hopefully, the investigators will make sure that those most vulnerable are protected.
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Tragic and disturbing story.
Peoria, Illinois Social Security Disability Judges
Yesterday I posted an article regarding Congressional hearings looking into the Social Security Disability process.
Some Congress people were complaining about high approval ratings from the Social Security disability Judges, also known as ALJs.
A little over 10 percent of the Judges have approved 75 percent of the cases coming before them.
That has raised some eyebrows in Congress.
Not to worry for those of us who live in Central Illinois.
There is nothing close to that approval rating from the Judges in the Peoria, Illinois ODAR office.
The website I found that tabulated statistics through early June 2013 shows the following approval rates:
ALJ Wilson 31%
ALJ Sarsfield 37%
ALJ Wood 32%
ALJ Rickert 51%
ALJ Thompson 27%
ALJ Flebbe 21%
ALJ Welsch 26%
ALJ Schwartz 39%
This may explain why some of my clients ask me why there are so many people walking around who have been found disabled and they look like they could work.
First of all, Social Security Disability is not based on looks. It is based on medical evidence.
Second, we tend to judge ourselves less severely than someone else.
Finally, the other people probably had one of those 75 percent approval Judges.
It really is a crazy system that produces such a wide variation in outcomes.
Peoria, Illinois is fairly conservative with an overall approval rate of 34 percent, and the Evanston, Illinois hearing office has a 56 percent approval rating.
What is your experience with your ALJ?
Questions about the best way to prepare for your Social Security Disability hearing? Feel free to contact Illinois Social Security Disability Lawyer Dirk May at 309-827-4371.
Social Security Disability and Diabetes?
If you have diabetes are you automatically eligible for Social Security Disability?
Nothing is automatic with Social Security Disability.
You must apply for disability and you must show that your limitations keep you from working.
With diabetes you must prove that you are compliant.
This means that you are taking your medications and following the doctor’s orders regarding your diet and other recommendations.
Some of the problems that result from diabetes include neuropathy.
This means numbness and pain in the nerves in the hands and feet.
If you have neuropathy in the feet but not the hands and are under 50 years of age, then you may not be considered disabled.
The reason is that if you can some type of job then Social Security rules provide that you are not disabled.
Often a problem with the feet alone will confine you to a sit down job but not stop you from working completely.
If you are over the age of 50 years and are limited to a sit down job then you may be found disabled.
If your diabetes is severe and causes neuropathy in the hands and feet, then you have a very good chance of being found disabled no matter what your age.
This is because most sit down jobs require frequent use of the hands.
Questions about your diabetes and Social Security Disability? Feel free to contact Illinois Social Security Disability Attorney Dirk May at 309-827-4371.