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November 2010: AALJ Testimony: Disability Backlog – 11/15/10
August 2010: ALJ Security – National Press Club event, 8/27/10
April 2010: AALJ testifies before Congress on the disability backlog.
October 2009. The Buffalo News – Take it from the judges: Disability cases too drawn out
September 2009: GAO Report on the Hearing Backlog
June 15, 2009. Government Executive –
ALJ Pension Reform and Enhanced Annual Leave:
Bills would boost leave and retirement benefits for administrative judges
May 28, 2009: AALJ Roundtable – Due Process and the Adjudication of Disability Claims
Government Executive:
Recession is exacerbating Social Security claims backlog, panelists say
Event Video (Added: 7/19/09)
May 4, 2009. Media Coverage of SSA Backlog and Finance Issues
January 1, 2009 to April 24, 2009: List with Links [PDF]
April 17, 2009. The Washington Post: Federal Diary - SSA and AALJ
"Speaking of unions and the Social Security Administration, the Association of Administrative Law Judges is celebrating a victory over the agency that allows the union to represent judges who hear cases involving disability benefits. An arbitrator, Michael A. Murphy, ordered SSA Commissioner Michael J. Astrue to 'cease and desist from refusing to recognize the union' and 'from displaying anti-union animus.'"
The full article is available here.
April 2009. SSA OIG Report: Work Activity Overpayments
"Our current review estimates that approximately $3.1 billion in overpayments existed because of disabled beneficiaries’ work activity. Although SSA identified about 58 percent of these overpayments, we estimate the remaining 42 percent—approximately $1.3 billion—went undetected by the Agency. In addition, we estimate SSA will continue to incorrectly pay about $382 million over the next 12 months to disabled beneficiaries no longer entitled to benefits if the Agency does not act.
We recognize SSA’s efforts to improve the work-related CDR process. In addition, we acknowledge the Agency’s limited resources with which to perform this workload. However, we believe SSA may achieve greater savings in the long-term if it could provide the resources to perform more work-related CDRs."
The full OIG Report is available here.
March 24, 2009. AALJ Testifies at House Hearing on Disability Backlog
AALJ President Ronald Bernoski testified on March 24, 2009, at a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing on "Eliminating the Disability Backlog."
The AALJ submitted testimony, plus submitted statements by other witnesses and details about the hearing, are available here.
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