As of March 2016, only seven of the nations’s 169 SSA Hearing Offices hold hearings within a year of when they are requested. The slowest hearing offices take 23 months. Adequate funding and staffing is necessary to decrease these processing times.
From January to March 2016, there were 575,078 applications for SSDI disabled worker benefits. In the same three months of 2015, there were 604,831 initial applications – nearly a 5% decline. The percentage of initial claims that resulted in an award of benefits increased slightly: the rate was 31.1% in the first three months of 2015 and … Continue reading “Disabled-Worker Statistics”
With May being Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, we at Graham & Graham have been pushing safety to all motorists. This push for safety should not be lost on those non-riders, as everyone must share the road. We have helped numerous clients and their families after a varying degree of motorcycle accidents. Obviously, the injuries a … Continue reading “Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month”
