05/24/2021
https://www.congress.gov...
"the Social Security Administration is in the process of moving tens of thousands of pending cases from ALJs to non-APA attorney examiners, who are regular employees of the agency and lack the requisit..."
"At the end of the day, I do not want us to end up with a longer backlog because we tried a novel theory that may or may not have worked."
"The sheer numbers, we are dealing with 1.1 million now in the backlog."
"So if I am picking this up still correctly, we are still talking about trying to get from OPM more people in the process, more qualified people in the process."