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Time Management While Traveling

Technology has allowed me to use my time wisely while traveling, so that I have more time for friends and family. Here are some tips that...

How to Use the New SSR 19-4p to Win Headache Cases

The Social Security Administration (SSA) published a new Social Security Ruling (SSR), known as SSR 19-4p, involving headaches, which...

How to Make Your Business More Profitable and Work More Interesting

Efficient and client-focused businesses are formed through creativity, ingenuity, and ambition. When it comes to serving the industry you...

Gain an Advantage at the Reconsideration Level: Helpful Strategies for SSD Representatives

Many Social Security Disability representatives in protype states are experiencing an additional level of the appeals process: the...

Supporting Pain, Fatigue, and Depression in Social Security Disability Claims

Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) and Social Security Administration (SSA) adjudicators appreciate objective medical evidence because it...

How to Use a Client’s Body Mass Index to Win Social Security Disability

In certain situations, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) policies allow adjudicators to use a claimant’s body mass index (BMI)...

How to Use Evidence from SSA’s Nonacceptable Medical Sources with New SSA Rules

Based on new rules that became effective in March 2017, it’s possible to win cases by using evidence from Social Security Administration’s (

Gaining the Advantage: Understand the Adjudicator Mindset

Using the Disability Determination Examination can be highly effective. Often, the Disability Determination Services minimizes or entirely d

Examining the Reconsideration Level, Part 3: Quantity at the Reconsideration Level—Temporary Hiring

This is Part 3 of the series Examining the Reconsideration Level. Read Part 1: Trust at the Reconsideration Level—Challenges and...

The Transition From Working as a Social Security Disability Adjudicator to a Social Security Represe

My previous experience as a disability adjudicator involved adjudicating disability cases and writing ALJ decisions—which gave me an advanta

Examining the Reconsideration Level, Part 2: Quality at the Reconsideration Level—Challenges and Sol

This is Part 2 of the series Examining the Reconsideration Level. Read Part 1: Trust at the Reconsideration Level—Challenges and...

Examining the Reconsideration Level, Part 1: Trust at the Reconsideration Level—Challenges and Solut

This is Part 1 of the series Examining the Reconsideration Level. Read Part 2: Quality at the Reconsideration Level—Challenges and...

Improving the Reconsideration Appeals Process

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is reinstating the reconsideration level appeals process for the 10 prototype states by the end of

Understanding How to Use the Framework of the Medical-Vocational Grid Rules to Win More Cases

It’s important to know a Social Security Disability adjudicator can find the disability claimant is disabled, even if the...

Sustaining Quality and Productivity in the Social Security Disability Industry

There are a number of strategies for sustaining quality work, including adding value, being active in the SSD community, providing Social Se

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