alt.social-security-disability

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:38:02 -0500, Psalm56@ (Gina May)
wrote:

>
>Hi jack
>
>My lawyer told me yesterday he had a client in with the same judge that
>I had and this judge made this guy cry in court..
>Doesn't surprise me any. about that.
>so my lawyer said to me he says just wanted you to know "Gina" that you
>are not the only one this judge has been harsh to.. so my lawyer said
>this judge needs to move on out of this line of work..
>
>but any how.. my lawyer tells me that the appeals council can take up to
>one yr to process..
>but I won't except that.
>so is there something that says in your files or I should ask is there
>anything you might have on your end you can send about how long appeals
>council takes. to process?
>
>Thankyou
>"Gi

It takes very long for an Appeals Council decision, often over a year.

You can show your lawyer this chart from a recent year

/disability/

Even though the Appeals Council has a smaller workload than the ALJ,
there are only 30 some administrative appeals judges and 30 some
appeals officers as opposed to 1,000-1,200 ALJs.