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On the recordMay 11, 2016
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 requisite decisional independence.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford criticizes SSA's plan to transfer cases to non-APA examiners.

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