Not every case is the same. They're all different, and that's why sometimes people have to appeal these to ALJs and then on to Federal court...
We just have a responsibility to make sure that the Social Security Administration gets enough money to fulfill its obligations.
I just wanted to have this hearing, again, to highlight what might happen if, in fact, the H.R. 1 was enacted.
The speed and quality of the disability process must continue to improve and should not be allowed to regress.
I was not aware of that in the--in H.R. 1--not aware that that provision was in there.
This case just shocks the conscience. Just shocks the conscience.
I've been working on sector partnership workforce training strategies for 4 years, along with Senator Olympia Snowe.
We are fearful that that could make legal representation unavailable to claimants who need to pursue their claims in Federal court.
I think I'm going to call Ms. Shor up to the table. No reason we can't.
Now, that's what the President's proposal is going to, hopefully, going to try to do, is to test a new system out on this.
So, why do so many cases, 20,000 a year, go through this whole system and stuff if--I mean, is it just an interpretive question, or is it a ...
I just wanted to point that out, that that's another little whack out there that might happen.
About program integrity: As you say, the continuing disability reviews save about $10 for every $1 spent.
I understand. Very good.
Complicated system.
But, the cost to society of not doing that, I submit to you, will be 10, 20, 30 times that much--the cost to society--if we don't do that.
we want to get to the bottom of that.
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