Federal Hiring Freeze May Worsen Disability Case Backlog
President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze may exacerbate a backlog of claims for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) that has grown so large that an average case takes more than a year to be heard in front of a judge. “These are people who are desperate,” Judge Marilyn Zahm, president of the… read more