Social Security Disability Greenville SC
In the last post, I referenced a news story in which a local TV station's "trouble shooter" (it seems every station has one of these tv journalists now) intervened in the case of a woman with terminal cervical cancer who had been denied social security disability benefits.
I have to admit, it was gratifying to hear that someone outside the system had actually managed to lend some very valuable (perhaps critical) assistance who desperately needed to have their claim looked at properly (if you have a terminal illness, by all logic, you shouldn't be denied, and, what's more, your case should be expedited through the system).
I was dismayed, however, to read that this woman's case might have been misidentified from the very start (terminal cases need to be identified as they come into a DDS (disability determination services) from a social security field office where the disability application was originally taken.
I was further dismayed to read the following statistic on the disability hearing office in Greenville, South Carolina. As the article stated, greenville has "an average processing time of 827 days". Only North Atlanta has a larger back log.
It's really amazing. I've been watching the situation with disability hearing backlogs for several years now. I've read probably hundreds of news stories and have read dozens of them in which members of Congress have been interviewed and have stated that the situation needs to be rectified. After all, how does anyone expect disability claimants to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy when a case can literally drag on for three years or more (that's including the disability application phase, the request for reconsideration, and the request for a hearing, not to mention how long it takes to actually receive a decision after a hearing has been held).
My own perspective is that I recall a time when a disability hearing date can actually be obtained in as little as three months from the time a hearing had been requested. Those days are long gone.
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I have to admit, it was gratifying to hear that someone outside the system had actually managed to lend some very valuable (perhaps critical) assistance who desperately needed to have their claim looked at properly (if you have a terminal illness, by all logic, you shouldn't be denied, and, what's more, your case should be expedited through the system).
I was dismayed, however, to read that this woman's case might have been misidentified from the very start (terminal cases need to be identified as they come into a DDS (disability determination services) from a social security field office where the disability application was originally taken.
I was further dismayed to read the following statistic on the disability hearing office in Greenville, South Carolina. As the article stated, greenville has "an average processing time of 827 days". Only North Atlanta has a larger back log.
It's really amazing. I've been watching the situation with disability hearing backlogs for several years now. I've read probably hundreds of news stories and have read dozens of them in which members of Congress have been interviewed and have stated that the situation needs to be rectified. After all, how does anyone expect disability claimants to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy when a case can literally drag on for three years or more (that's including the disability application phase, the request for reconsideration, and the request for a hearing, not to mention how long it takes to actually receive a decision after a hearing has been held).
My own perspective is that I recall a time when a disability hearing date can actually be obtained in as little as three months from the time a hearing had been requested. Those days are long gone.
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