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On the recordMay 7, 2013
What the Social Security system says is 22 percent of the time their Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) are making a mistake in terms of what they are granting.
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn discusses errors in Social Security disability determinations.

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