Charles Hall -- Hall & Rouse, P.C. (@SocSecBlog) profile picture

Social Security attorney. Blogger on Social Security matters

Raleigh, NC
Joined October 2013
Social Security field offices and TSCs staying open on 12/24 and 12/26.
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Never seen this before. Humongous pumpkins for sale at local grocery store for $99.99!
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Do we really have to go back to this before every American realizes just how dangerous childhood infectious diseases are? I was only five when the Salk polio vaccine was released. Even then I realized how extraordinarily important it was for my parents.
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Social Security OHO Caseload Analysis report.
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Here's a couple of interesting orders from DHS to Lee Dudek, then Acting Commissioner of Social Security. Notice that they're kinda lacking in legal authority for what's being ordered. ssa.gov/foia/readingroom.htm…
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Social Security's Office of Hearings Operations had over 50,000 hours of overtime last month and still lost ground.
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South and Midwest most vulnerable to Social Security cuts. epi.org/blog/southern-and-mi…
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I thought things couldn’t get more absurd. I was wrong.
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Federal court hearing today on DOGE access to Social Security records draws demonstrators.
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Hearing backlog starts to inch up as ALJs available dip below 1,000
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I think this means I’m getting old!
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Social Security field office losses under Voluntary Separation Incentive Program.
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Social Security is becoming ultra efficient.
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Dudek has now walked back things he told Court to try to get DOGE back in SSA databases. The Court is unimpressed with claim that DOGE needs access to unanonymized data to detect patterns of fraud when they have no idea who committed fraud or that fraud was committed
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A screenshot from that taped meeting
#SocialSecurity Increases Transparency and Accountability. More information here: ow.ly/IYLN50VnHmK
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Judge to Lee Dudek: Quit being an ass.
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