Federal judges found fault with almost sixty percent of disability cases — the highest rate of rejections in years. But Social Security often rejects their findings.
By Lisa Rein
Hurled from a road-paving machine, Michael Sheldon tumbled 50 feet down a Colorado slopeand struck a mound of boulders headfirst on a summer day in 2006.After eight surgeries to his head, neck and spinal cord, his debilitating headaches, chronic pain and post-traumatic stress have made it impossible to return to his work preparing roads for new subdivisions.
Yet for more than a decade, the Social Security Administration repeatedly deniedSheldon’sfull claim for disability benefits that would pay him $1,415 a month.
Even after threefederal judges found significant errors with how his case was handled and sent it back to Social Security for new hearings, the agency continued to reject Sheldon, court documents show.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/social-security-disability-denials-court-remands/