Which Form 8865 Disregarded 2023-2024

Heather, this is Jonathan Ginsberg. I'd like to talk to you today about continuing disability reviews. As you may know, when you are approved for disability benefits, Social Security retains the right to review your case down the road to see if you remain disabled. What we're seeing now is that when judges approve cases, they will typically indicate whether the review needs to be in three years, five years, or seven years. If it's a five or seven-year review, it usually means that the judge feels that your disability is likely to be permanent. If it is a three-year review, then that means the judge feels like you possibly could be seeing some improvement down the road. It's really important to know which type of review you have in your decision because that will help dictate what you should try to do in terms of your ongoing treatment. You should still get ongoing treatment, but if you're on a three-year review case, we're going to see a lot more reviews. I think what's happened is that Social Security has made a big effort for the past few years to try to encourage judges to really only approve cases where the evidence is compelling. What they found is that judges really resented the intrusion on their independence. Even though some of the newer judges are not necessarily inclined to approve as many cases, the older ones that we saw had a higher approval rating. The approval rating has gone down some, and I think the idea of trying to get judges to approve fewer cases has hit a certain brick wall. I believe there's been some thought within Social Security, at least when I'm reading between the lines, that Social Security feels that it's easier to fight down the road and get people off...