{"id":1780,"date":"2007-12-10T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2007-12-10T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:56:55","slug":"in_limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"In Limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT reports that the the Social Security Administration&#8217;s overwhelming backlog of disability appeals is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/10\/us\/10disability.html?_r=1&amp;ref=us&amp;oref=slogin\">forcing people to wait years<\/a> before they can get their appeals heard. The delays can be so severe that some people lose their homes or even die before they can get a hearing. The article points out that approximately two-thirds of appeals result in the awarding of disability benefits, which makes the initial review stage seem more like a bureaucratic hoop rather than a meaningful assessment process. A substantial number of those waiting for a hearing date are individuals with mental illness, which raises questions about how disability examiners treat such claims on first blush. These examiners do play a crucial gatekeeping role, but the extraordinarily high rate of successful appeals indicates that the system seems to err on the side of denying benefits and hoping they&#8217;ll go away. We should be able to do better than that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT reports that the the Social Security Administration&#8217;s overwhelming backlog of disability appeals is forcing people to wait years before they can get their appeals heard. The delays can be so severe that some people lose their homes or even die before they can get a hearing. The article points out that approximately two-thirds <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1780' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-in_limbo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}