Massachusetts Social Security Disability Lawyers Blog
The SSDI backlog is likely to worsen, even as there already exists an extensive wait for processing Social Security Disability Insurance claims, a new Bloomberg report speculates.
As it now stands, a typical appeal for an SSDI denial takes more than a year to be heard by an administrative law judge.
The president of the ALJ union told Bloomberg that people waiting to have their SSDI appeals heard are “desperate.” This is not an exaggeration, particularly when you consider that people are continuing to get older and sicker, in addition to more people incurring new injuries. Continue reading