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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...
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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...
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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...
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Time Management in Production-Paced Environments
I’ve been working in production-paced environments for most of my legal career. Time management is a key factor in being able to keep up...
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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...
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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)...
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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 (
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Training Opportunity For American Expats Serving Abroad: Become a Social Security Disability Writer
Recently, I realized there is an opportunity to create jobs as my business expands. I enjoy creating business and providing solutions for...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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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