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[Christopher McMillan]

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Subject: SSA Board Report on Improving the Social Security Hearing  Process

SSA Board Report on Improving the Social Security Hearing Process

              Social Security Advisory Board Report
        on Improving the Social Security Hearing Process

              Social Security Advisory Board issues:
  Improving the Social Security Administrations Hearing Process
                          September 2006
 
Over the past two years, the Social Security Advisory Board has 
been examining the SSA hearing process, focusing attention on 
issues of consistency, productivity, long processing times and 
large backlogs, hearing office management, and the relationship 
between the agency and its corps of administrative law judges. On 
the basis of this study, the Board has developed recommendations 
addressing those issues so as to make the process more fair, 
consistent, and efficient. 
 
The Board's report is available now in a preliminary electronic 
version http://www.ssab.gov/documents/HearingProcess.pdf.
Printed copies will be available at a later date.

This and other Board reports can be requested or downloaded from 
the Boards website http://www.ssab.gov:
 
Other recent reports issued by the Board include:
 
A Disability System for the 21st Century (September 2006)
 http://www.ssab.gov/documents/disability-system-21st.pdf

Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials (March 2006)
 http://www.ssab.gov/DisabilityChartbookSummar.htm

Social Security: Why Action Should Be Taken Soon (September 2005)
 http://www.ssab.gov/Why_action_is_needed_soon.htm

Retirement Security: The Unfolding of a Predictable Surprise
 http://www.ssab.gov/RetirementSecuritySummary.htm
 (March 2005)

The Social Security Definition of Disability (October 2003)
 http://www.ssab.gov/Definition-of-disability-summary.htm

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For more Social Security news issues, see:
http://www.aapd.com/News/SocSecurity/indexSocSecurity.php

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