The Washington Post Shines a Light on Social Security Disability Decision Errors

Doherty, Cella, Keane LLP’s Federal District Court practice is more important than ever as illustrated by this scathing indictment of Social Security’s disability decision errors highlighted in the following article published in the Washington Post on May 25, 2023 by Lisa Rein. 

“In the last two fiscal years, federal judges considering appeals for denied benefits found fault with almost 6 in every 10 cases and sent them back to administrative law judges at Social Security for new hearings – the highest rate of rejections in years, agency statistics show.”

Federal District Court is the last stage of appeal for claimants who are denied Social Security benefits through the Administrative level. This option is only available for applicants who are denied at the Initial Claim, Reconsideration, Hearing and Appeals Council levels.  Doherty, Cella, Keane LLP reviews all claims denied at the Appeals Council level for possible appeal to the Federal District Court and seeks judicial review of those with merit.

Often times a case awarded after Federal District Court review results in hundreds of thousands of dollars in retroactive benefits to the claimant.  This is an often overlooked but important part of a Social Security disability practice.

Only attorneys can take a claim to Federal District Court.