Posts Tagged ‘ODAR’

If you are keeping in touch with the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) which is preparing your case for hearing, you may be told that your case has finally been assigned to an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).  
However, ODAR may not tell you is how much longer it will take to get a [...]

I previously wrote about how Social Security may move a case from one hearing office (Office of Disability Adjudication and Review – ODAR) to another to try to ease case congestion and speed up processing.
Usually, there is nothing to worry about when this happens. However, there is something you do need to watch out for. If you [...]

Once you hire an attorney to represent you on your Social Security case, you may find that Social Security does not want to release any more information to you.  This is especially true at the Social Security ODAR (Office of Disability Adjudication and Review) offices.  
Don’t worry, there is nothing nefarious going on.  
It is [...]

Every once in a while I get a panicked call from a client:
I called Social Security about my case.  
They don’t show an appeal was filed. What happened?!
I ask which Social Security office they called: the local Social Security office, the appeals office (Office of Disability Adjudication and Review – ODAR), or the toll free [...]

When you are waiting for your Social Security hearing, it can come as a shock to receive a letter telling you that your case has been transferred to a different hearing office in another state.  
Attorney Donald Chewning writes about this on the Wisconsin Disability Blog.
If you are awaiting a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge in [...]

My last article talked about why it is so important to review your Social Security exhibit file.
But how do I get a copy of my Social Security file?
If you already have a hearing scheduled, Social Security will tell you in the Notice of Hearing that you should arrive thirty minutes before your hearing and you [...]