Friday, April 12th, 2019
Social Media and Disability
The Trump Administration wants to use social media as a way to prevent disabled people from collecting disability, that is if they seem to be happy, disabled people.
- DDS’s Unfair and Unequitable Practices
- DDS Denials Overturned
- Rare OTR
- Compassionate Allowance
- Hearing Loss Approval
- OTRs
- QR Increases on Approvals
- Rare Remand Approval After a Decade
- ALJ Reverses DDS's Denials
- Mental Health Approval
- The Truth about Immigrants and Social Security
- "Let's Get Loud" Series - Mental Health Records
- "Let's Get Loud" Series - Treating Physician Rule
- OTR Efficiency
- "Let's Get Loud" Series - DDS's Laziness
- "Let's Get Loud" Series - ALJ's
- MS Approval
- "Let's Get Loud" Series - State Agency Ineptness
- SSA Slammed
- "Let's Get Loud " Series - Payment Center Delays
- Another Seven Year Saga
- Non-Medical Evidence
- LTD Approvals
- SSA - Is Anyone Listening?
- Fraudulent CE's
- Cost of Living Increase
- Unconscionable Delays by ALJ
- Podiatrists
- CE Boondoggle Continues
- SSA's Total Dysfunction
- Long COVID Approval
- SS Benefits Increase for 2023
- Lack of Funding
- SS Terminology
- Nurse Practitioners
- Treating Source Still Prevails
- Living with Long COVID
- Lupus Anticoagulant
- Consultative Exams
- 45 Days Means 45 Days
- Updating Opinions
- SS Approves Long COVID
- Compassionate Allowance
- SSD and Retirement
- Consistency and Persuasiveness
- Multiple Impairments
- Growing Dire Need
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Treating CE
- Long Covid Financial Duress
- Aid for Long COVID
- Federal Court Remand
- Another Win in Federal Court
- ANS Disorder
- Pain Management
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Disabling Migraine Headaches
- LTD Buy Outs
- Covid Long Haulers
- Remand for Benefits
- Prostate Cancer
- More Good News?
- SS Commissioner Fired
- COVID Long-Haulers
- SDNY Affirms SSD Win
- Prudential Approval
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- We Take Care of Our Own?
- Mystery Solved
- More State Agency Deceit
- SSD Hearings
- Some Good News!
- Medical Consultant C. Levit
- COVID19 Impacts SSD
- Prudential Approval
- CDC's Response to COVID19
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes
- COVID19 Bill
- Kudos to CALJ Wexler
- COVID19 Repercussions
- Coronavirus
- Getting It Right
- DaTscan
- Adult Disabled Child
- SSD Approved in 1 Week
- State Agency Doctors
- SS Benefits in Danger
- Proposed Changes to SS and Medicare
- 6 Years for Approval
- Exhaustive Hospital Records
- Expert Interrogatories
- Surveillance Report
- SSD Approved in 2 Months
- Unum Pays
- Bipolar Disorder
- “Reserved” to the Commissioner
- SSD Approved in 4 Months
- Videotaping IMA
- Frontal Lobe Syndrome
- Fahr's Syndrome
- Initial SSD Approved
- Inconsistent, But Favorable Decision
- SSD and Working
- U.S.D.J. Azrack Reverses ALJ
- Objective Testing
- U.S.D.J. Amon Reverses ALJ Iwuamadi
- Proposed SS Rule Hurts
- Borderline Age
- The Wait Is Killing Them
- IMA
- Erythromelalgia
- Limbic Encephalitis
- Government Shutdown & SS
- Consussions
- Migraines
- Physician Assistants
- SSA Stay Denied
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
- Bipolar Disorder
- SS Benefits Increase
- Dysautonomia
- Young Person Granted OTR
- Earnings After Onset
- Patchogue Obstruction
- Washington Times Article
- Medical Sources
- Lourdes Marasigan
- Lump Sum Settlements
- Partially Favorable Decisions
- No Help for SSD Backlogs
- Fast SSD Approval
- Vocational Experts
- Disability and Medicare
- IMA Disability Services
- NYSLERS & SSD
- Help for SSD Benefits?
- Vocational Expert
- Supporting Records
- Budget Cuts Increase Wait Times
- Support Letters
- SSD For MS
- Misconceptions About SSD Continue
- Patchogue Fails Again
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Lupus
- SSD Delays
- WC Medical Opinions
- Government Targets the Disabled
- Another SSD Myth Busted
- The Truth About SSD
- SS Benefits 101
- Increase in SS Denials
- Best Time to Apply for SS
- Parkinson's Disease
- SSA in Crisis
- SSD Reform Needed
- Applying for SSD Benefits
- Headaches
- Disabling Fibromyalgia
- Garnishing SS Benefits
- Nurse Practioners
- Trump Hurt Disabled Workers
- Expediting Hearing
- Social Security Fraud
- Congress Can End SSD Backlog
- Tips for Retirement Benefits
- Social Security Backlog Continues
- Income and Disability
- ALJ Found Scleroderma Disabling
- More SSD Delays
- ODAR Rumor
- SSD Approval Rates
- National Adjudication Team
- Second Circuit Case
- Prudential LTD Fraud
- District Court Rejects SSA Denial
- Work Record
- Macroprolactinoma
- Jerome Caiati
- Importance of Diagnostic Testing
- SSD Approved In 2 Months
- Unemployment Benefits Do Not Preclude SSD
- ALJ Relies On Disgraced “Medical Expert”
- SSD Approved for Crohn’s Disease
- NYSLERS
- Claimant Credibility and Work History
- NYS OTDA Fraud Update
- SSD Approved in Less Than Months
- Combined Disabling Conditions
- Lymphedema
- Significant Weight Suffices
- Combined Disabling Conditions
- Cancer Claims
- Deceptive Insurance Practices
- Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
- DDS Continues to Purge Evidence
- Proposed LTD Regulations
- Reliance Approves LTD After Deadline
- Approval for Toll Collector
- The Consequences of SSD Delays
- Acupuncture
- SSA Continues Prejudicial Policy
- Psychotherapy Notes
- Vocational Evidence Determinative
- Treating Doctor Testimony
- IMA Notices
- SSA Delays
- SSA INTENTIONALLY INCREASING DELAYS
- New IMA Fraud & Worse
- Mental Health Records
- CROM Testing
- Padro: Relief too little, too late
- IMA Evading Law Again
- SSD for School Custodian
- 28 Months For Approval
- SSD With No Hearing
- State Agency Analyst Lied
- Social Security Backlog
- Social Security Backlog
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Renamed
- Go Figure
- IMA Disability Services
- Sadistic IMA Conduct
- A Padro Success
- Disability for Breast Cancer
- Continuing Disability Review
- CIGNA Reverses LTD Termination
- Disability Hearing Witnesses
- The State Agency Concedes
- Social Security Fraud
- Congress Killing Disability
- Binder & Binder Bankruptcy
- SSD In Less Than A Month
- Hearing Wait Gets Worse
- Internists’ Disability Opinions
- Binder & Binder Goes Bankrupt
- SSA Form 821
- Dementia
- Sensorineural Deafness
- CIGNA Says Claimant Cannot Do Any Work
- Biased SSA Review Policy
- Pseudarthrosis
- Proper Hearing Notice
- Video Taping Consultative Examination
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- SSA Still Not Using eCAT Properly
- Supplemental Hearing Cancelled
- Establishing Mental Disability
- Passive Income
- Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
- SSD For Landscaper
- Disability Retirement Approved Without A Hearing
- SSD for Cement Truck Driver
- USDC Reverses ALJ Wolfe
- Disability Etiology
- Unum Field Visit
- Disability Benefits for Truck Driver
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Establishing Mental Disability
- Unum Reapproval
- Medicaid Disability Determinations
- Patchogue Problems Persist
- Benefits Turned On Vocational Error
- SSA Staff Attorneys
- Disability Benefits While Working
- Scleroderma
- Agoraphobia
- Padro Deadline
- State Agency Reports Misrepresentations
- Amending Onset To Avoid Hearing
- Carpenter Avoids Disability Hearing
- Brugada Syndrome
- Disabling Mitral Valve
- SSA Secret Rule
- The Electronic Claims Analysis Tool (eCAT)
- If You Die Before Benefits Are Approved
- Media Deception
- CIGNA Reverses STD & LTD Decisions
- Disabling Sleep Apnea
- Padro Settlement Agreement A Joke
- Appealing Partially Favorable Decisions
- Social Security in the News
- Hoppenfeld Refused To Comply With Padro
- Social Security Benefit Increase
- Reopening Prior Application
- Wegener's Granulomatosis
- SSA “Quality” Review By QRB
- Dire Need
- Padro Settlement Approved
- Social Security Increase
- Government Shutdown
- Reviewing An Employer’s Work Description
- Podiatrists
- Off Task
- Social Security Reconsideration
- Fully Favorable Decisions
- Operative Reports
- Unusual SSD Approvals
- Risky Side Effects
- ALJ Strauss Claimants
- Unsuccessful Work Attempt
- Unum Pressures Doctors
- Patchogue Continued Ineptitude
- Is Strauss Serious?
- Is It The New Commissioner?
- Padro Class Action Problem
- Padro Class Action Hearing Next Week
- Replace UNUM
- Expediting SSD Hearings
- Court Said IME Doctor Lied
- Continuing Disability Review
- Podiatrists
- Connect The Dots
- Unum Ordered To Produce Witnesses For Depositions
- Social Security Form DDD-3883
- Acceptable Medical Sources
- Petition Regulators About Unum
- Consultative Exam Withdrawn
- Padro Class Action Notices
- Rejecting SSA Remand Offer
- CIGNA Regulatory Settlement
- Polymyositis
- NOSSCR Conference
- SSA Misinformation
- Padro Class Action Settlement
- DDS Actually Listened
- Padro Class Action Update
- Same Day SSD & DI Award
- SSD for Letter Carrier
- Illusory Unum Approval
- Work History & Credibility
- Lupus
- Thank You Judge Irizarry
- Crohn’s’ Disease
- Work History
- Eliminate the SSD Waiting Period
- Urinary Incontinence
- SS Retirement or Disability?
- Ignoring Unreasonable Requests
- Officer Approved in 2 Months
- PADRO Class Action
- Updating Evidence
- SSD & Chiropractors
- SSD Approved In Under 2 Months
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Queens ALJ Bias Plaintiff
- Breast Cancer
- CIGNA LTD Fraud Template
- Unsuccessful Work Attempt
- Why DDS Denies SSD Claimants
- Partially Favorable Onset Appeal
- Treating Physician Rule
- FCE Spurs Unum Approval
- Commendable Action By ALJ
- ERISA Exception
- Importance of Vocational Evidence
- State Agency Exam Notices
- SSD Approved In 3 Months
- Social Security Myth
- Subpoena Leads to SSD Award for Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Another CE Problem
- Appeals Council Remands
- Social Security & The Presidential Election
- SSD Claimants Need To Review Their Efolders
- Firefighter Awarded SSD
- Obesity & Disability
- Videotaping IMA Consultative Examinations
- Biased Hoppenfeld Decision Reversed
- IMA Disability Services
- Carpenter Wins SSD For Wrong Reason
- Padro ALJ Bias Class Action To Be Settled
- Binder & Binder Replaced
- If at first …
- IMA Disability Services
- The Office of Medical and Vocational Expertise
- Newsday Article
- The SSD “12 Month Rule”
- Medical Expert Interrogatories
- Patchogue Ineptitude
- Emphasizing Work History
- Reopening Disability Applications
- What is NY Waiting For?
- When Objective Evidence Isn't Enough
- Disability Benefits For Nurse
- Bench Decision
- Hearing Avoided
- Disability Pension Award From Union
- IMA Exams In New York
- AARP On SSD
- How Much Will Social Security Pay You?
- SSD & Unemployment Benefits
- State Agency-IMA Bad Faith Tactics
- Why Bother With An Exam By IMA?
- Workers Compensation & SSD
- Hoppenfeld Bias
- Veteran Gets SSD for Memorial Day
- Vocational Evidence
- Establishing Mental Disability
- IMA Exam Is Not Required
- Postherpetic Neuralgia
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Disabling AION
- Proof of Birth for SSD
- Corroboration is not Superfluous
- Social Security Listings
- CIGNA CONTINUES ILLEGAL CONDUCT
- Fast SSD Approvals
- Impaired Use of Hands
- Representative Payee
- Onset Appeal
- Amending SSD Onset Date
- State Agency Vocational Experts
- Causation and Social Security Disability Benefits
- Alport Syndrome
- David Nisnewitz Found Unfit To Be ALJ Again
- Reopening SSD Applications
- Another Example of ALJ Fier's Bias
- Physician Specialty
- Medical Source Statements
- Podiatrists and Disability Benefits
- Retaining Social Security Experts
- Transparent Hoppenfeld Bias
- State Agency Disability Analysts
- SSD & WC
- SSA Should Reimburse Travel
- Disability Benefits For Carpenter
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- SSD Approved in Two Months
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Veterans Medical Source Statements
- Disabled by Schizophrenia
- Receiving SSD Benefits and an Income
- Vocational Credibility
- SSD For Police Officer
- Kienbock's Disease
- Patchogue Incompetence
- Binder and Binder
- Appeals Council Doltishness
- NYCERS Disability Pension
- Can You Receive SSD If You Have Income?
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Multiple Impairments
- Adverse Evidence
- Cerebrovascular Accident & SSD
- Was A Video Hearing Needed?
- NOSSCR Conference
- SSD Approved in 2 Weeks
- SSD Approved In 2 Months
- Disability and Diabetes
- Social Security Benefit Increase
- Vocational Experts
- IMA Consultative Examinations
- Hoppenfeld & The Rotation Policy
- Alzheimer’s
- Federal Court Reassigns Nisnewitz Case
- Approval After Federal Court Remand
- Abusive Hoppenfeld Conduct
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- SSD Overpayments
- LTD Approved In Less Than A Month
- Maximizing Disability Benefits
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- When To Amend The Disability Onset Date
- Right To Cross Examine Post Hearing Experts
- Commissioner’s Statement Is Offensive
- Gilding the Lily
- SSD Approved in 2.5 Months
- When to File for SSD
- Disability & Incontinence
- Hoppenfeld Fibromyalgia Bias
- On The Record Requests
- LTD Approved In Two Months
- Work History
- Relocating While Disabled
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Getting Disability Benefits Quickly
- SSD Approved in 3 Months
- SSD Approved In Two Months
- SSD & WC Offset
- Disability Analysts
- Federal Court Decision
- Social Security Depravity
- Depression and Anxiety
- Fully Favorable Appeals Council Order
- Erythema Multiform Major
- SSD in Three Months
- Lincoln Life Pays LTD Benefits
- Acquiring Work Skills
- Court Rejects CIGNA LTD Termination
- Disability Benefits & Substance Abuse
- Endometriosis
- SSD Approved In 2 Months
- Raising The Retirement Age
- No More Paper Checks
- Treating Doctors
- SSA Prehearing
- Disability Redefined
- Consultative Examinations
- Evidence of Hoppenfeld Bias
- ALJ Nisnewitz Rejected Again
- ALJ Bias Class Action
- Working And SSD
- ALJ Bias In Queens
- Federal Court Decision
- ALJ Strauss Rejected Again
- Seven Year Wait Over
- Lyme Disease
- ALJ Strauss Reversed Again
- Remand To A New ALJ
- “Secret” Child’s Benefits
- Unfair CIGNA Tactics Detailed
- LTD Policy Offsets
- Partially Favorable Decisions
- SSD While Working
- Expediting Disability Benefits
- Multiple sclerosis
- Date Last Insured
- Radiculopathy
- Videoconference Hearings
- Expediting Disability Benefits
- Patchogue Incompetence
- Federal Court Decision
- Union Disability Approved
- SSA Notice of Awards
- SSA Doctors
- Protective Filing Date
- SSA Delays
- On The Record Requests
- Dialysis & Disability
- Disability Opinions & Medical Tests
- LTD and SSD
- CIGNA Sued For Surveillance
- Attorney Advisors
- Social Security Doctors
- Unum Reverses Termination
- Electronic Records Express
- Multiple Impairments
- Income Doesn't Bar Disability Benefits
- Celiac Disease
- Proving Disabling Pain
- EAJA Fees
- IMA Disability Services
- Self Employment
- Medical Listing Opinions
- Treatment Records
- Avoiding SSD Hearings
- Federal Court Remand
- The MTA & SSD
- When Work Doesn’t Count
- Gastroparesis
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Benefits After A Federal Court Remand
- Firefighter Gets SSD Benefits
- Prudential Approved LTD, For Now
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Getting Benefits While Working
- EAJA Fees
- Stroke
- New Jersey District Court Remand
- District Court Remand
- ALJ Hoppenfeld Overtly Acts Biased
- Veterans
- NYCERS & SSD
- Medical Evidence and Functionality
- Deceptive SSA Notices
- Onset Date
- Queens ALJs
- When Can You File For SSD Benefits?
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Consultative Exam (“CE”) Ruled Improper
- EAJA Fees
- Consultative Examinations
- New Office
- Complaining About Biased ALJs
- IMA Disability Services
- Multiple Impairments
- NYCERS
- Primary Care Physicians
- Social Security Rulings
- Anxiety
- Fibromyalgia
- Retrospective Medical Opinion
- Disability For Federal Employees
- The Grids
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Adult Disabled Children
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth
- Depression and Anxiety
- RSD/CRPS
- Getting SSD Even If You Can Work
- Health Insurance For Children
- Health Insurance For Children
- Settling With CIGNA
- Avoiding An Improper Consultative Exam
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Protective Filing Dates
- SSD Delays
- Reopening Past SSD Denial
- ALJ Strauss’ Reliance On ME Cohen’s Testimony Proves She Is Biased
- Listed Impairments
- Multiple Medical Sources
- Attorney Advisors
- Avoiding Consultative Examinations
- Atypical Parkinson’s
- Chondromalacia
- Subpoena The SSA Doctor
- Prudential Reverses Fibromyalgia STD & LTD Denial
- ALJ Nisenewitz: Stupid or Biased?
- LTD & Health Insurance
- Courts Rules CIGNA Is Biased
- SSD & Taxes
- ALJ Hoppenfeld Must Be Barred From FMS Cases
- Don’t Believe Everything You Read
- On The Record Request
- Avoiding SSD Remand Hearing
- NYCERS Disability Retirement
- Submitting Medical Records
- CIGNA Ordered To Pay For Its Actions
- Oops, CIGNA’s Done It Again
- Hearing Office Attorneys
- Hearing Notice
- Appeals Council Rebukes ALJ Fier
- Unsuccessful Work Attempts
- Medical Assessments
- Disability & Downsizing
- Consultative Examinations
- Obama Disability Benefit
- Court Blasts CIGNA LTD Benefit Termination
- Obama and Social Security Benefits
- “Fully Favorable” Decisions
- SSD Secret
- Notice of Dismissal
- Initial SSA Decisions
- Appeals Council Scolds ALJ
- Unum Cases In New York
- Medical Evidence
- Prior Applications
- Disability is Functionality
- Medical Records & Reports
- Social Security Files
- Applicaiton Filing Date
- Representing Yourself
- Disabled Voters
- Vertigo
- Multiple Impairments
- Myasthenia Gravis
- More Is Better
- Disability Benefits & Work
- SSA Medical Reports
- Negotiating Disability Benefits
- Consultative Examinations
- GMA Exposes CIGNA
- Work History
- Onset and Application Dates
- Supreme Court Helps LTD Claimants
- Expediting SSD Cases
- Two Heads Are Better Than One
- LTD Litigation
- Retrospective Medical Opinions
- Establishing An Onset Date
- Field Visit
- Multiple Attorneys
- Self Employment
- Special Accommodations
- Multiple Disability Benefits
- Clarifying Objective Evidence
- “Fully Favorable” Decisions
- Treating Sources
- SSD & Mental Disability
- Using Vocational Evidence To Expedite Benefits
- Attorney Adjudicator
- Past Earnings
- Benefits Without A Hearing
- Irrelevant Medical Conditions
- Establishing Credibility
- Medical Updates
- No Health Insurance
- Application Dates
- Possible Delay Remedy
- Unum Reassessment Loophole
- Benefits Despite Income
- Consultative Examinations
- “Accentuate The Positive, Eliminate The Negative”
- Dire Need
- How To Avoid Hearing Delays
- Police Disability
- Seminar
- Expediting LTD Benefits
- Uveitis
- TBI and Vocational Evidence
- Failure To Receive Notice
- Mental Disorders
- Inability To Speak English
- Discovery In ERISA Cases
- Don’t Be Intimidated By DDS
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Avoiding Hearings
- Working Does Not Preclude Benefits
- Be Wary of Forms
- Exam Secrets
- SSD for Firefighter
- Consultative Examinations
- Purpose of SSD Hearing
- Why Wait?
- Insurance Department Complaint
- Overreach For Disability Retirement
- Vertigo
- No Objective Testing Required for Chronic Fatigue
- Non-binding Disability Decision
- Always Check The Listings
- LTD & SSD
- Avoid Early Retirement
- Getting Benefits Faster
- Medical Records & Reports
- Corroborating Physicians
- Unemployment Benefits
- Miano v. Barnhart
- Benefits Despite Working
- Work History Credibility
- Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
- Arthritis Foundation