The Social Security Administration has announced the reinstatement of a disability appeal, the reconsideration, in Pennsylvania. Earlier this year, five other states reinstated the reconsideration.
A level of Social Security's national disability appeals process since 1959, the reconsideration step was eliminated in 10 states as part of a prototype to explore ways to re-engineer the disability process. Reinstating reconsideration restores a national, unified disability process and consistent due process for disability claimants across the country. It also leads to earlier allowance decisions for some at a lower administrative cost to taxpayers than if the first appeal of an initial claim goes directly to the hearing level to be heard by an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). People still have the right to appeal their reconsideration decisions at a hearing before an ALJ.
To learn more about Social Security's disability process, readers may visit http://www.socialsecurity.gov/benefits/disability.
Leave a Review