Social Security Hearing Offices Backlog Continues


	Social Security Hearing Offices Backlog Continues

laraluna50

7-14-2008 4:29 PM

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laraluna50 says:

As of January 2008, about 735,000 Social Security disability cases were awaiting a hearing on appealed claims, more than double the number of pending cases just eight years earlier.

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