How does the Budget affect the social security benefit applicants?

A disturbing trend has emerged at local Social Security offices that is hurting everyone applying for Social Security Disability and SSI benefits. Many local offices have little more than half the staff they used to, as budget cuts over the past decade have made it impossible to replace the many experienced and knowledgeable employees that have either retired or moved on in their careers.

The outcome is that even with electronic recording, cases are regularly not being sent to the State Agency in a convenient way to begin the medicinal assessment that is the heart of the procedure. Despite the fact that at our own particular firm we record our underlying applications electronically, there are still activities that the nearby staff members must take to handle the case. To an ever increasing extent, those are not being done or are incredibly deferred, regardless of their normal nature.

Moreover, we are finding that because of inability and restricted preparing, the SSA staff members frequently neglect to finish the routine administrative procedure, prompting troubles for the petitioners toward the end, after their cases have been endorsed and they are expecting installment.

Like whatever other procedure, doing it comfortable starting is much speedier and easier than correcting botches as a case goes on. The additional time our staff spends attempting to right missteps made by the Social Security Administration, the less time we need to really help inquirer's win cases.

It is the same on the flip side of the telephone calls we need to make: if the SSA work force were acting rapidly and productively, they would have the capacity to help more individuals. We utilize various previous long-term SSA workers and I esteem their suppositions and perceptions enormously around there. They let me know the issues are because of the Social Security Administration's absence of labor and the representatives' absence of preparing and experience.