Quick Disability Determination expands into more states

We all know that the wait to have your disability case decided is too long.  Fortunately, Social Security is introducing programs to try to speed up the process, and reduce the backlog of cases awaiting decisions.
Social Security issued a final rule on September 5, 2007 extending nationwide its Quick Disability Determination (QDD) process.  Under QDD, a predictive model analyzes specific elements of data within the electronic claims file to identify claims where there is a high potential that the claimant is disabled and where evidence of the person’s allegations can be quickly and easily obtained. …  Arizona, …

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