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Beginning next week, the Social Security Administration will be expanding its field office hours for nearly every day of the week. SSA announced the change after Congress recently approved a new agency budget for fiscal year 2015.

For certain types of disability claims, it may be possible to assist a claimant in filing a brand new application, filling out the very first forms used to communicate and interact with Social Security, and all the documents and papers and appeals that come next.

Your Honor, this is my client. My client may have been a highly paid executive in her former life, or maybe she suffered great abuse as a child and now fights demons and addictions.

It’s off topic, folks. I know it. But sometimes it’s nice to be reminded that lawyers are real people too. Dealing with many of the same difficult issues that everyone else is dealing with.

New audit figures are in, straight from the Office of the Inspector General of Social Security, and the information confirms what we have been telling our clients for months: the waiting period at the hearing level is getting longer.

Do Administrative Law Judges follow the rules when deciding claims? Not always.

The Social Security Administration announced today that the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2015 will be 1.7%. This means that for individuals receiving monthly Social Security benefits or SSI benefits, the increase will be reflected in the benefits received beginning in January 2015.

I was recently retained by an individual who several years ago hired a “big name” national company to assist him at his disability hearing.

I recently had a new client in my office. She had previously filed for benefits, and had been represented by a large law firm based out of town.

The Compassionate Allowances provisions of the Social Security Disability program allows for the fast-tracking of disability claims based on severe, life-threatening conditions.