Alj Denied

[giz]

those that think that va total and permanant gives you a lock for ssd it dont and the reason for denial was completly made up he just ignored the facts and on the va he just said that he is not bound by the va decision,no kidding thats the best you could come up with.i know i can appeal but it is so frustrating when a judge just ignores three doctors saying i cant work and his own jobs guy saying theirs know job i can do,thanks for letting me vent :) ill keep fighting till i die

[free_spirit_etc]

Just for curiosity, you can look up the approval and denial rate of your judge here:

http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ss...y_database.html

To get the stats on a specific judge, enter the judge’s name and click search.

To access the entire database, just click search without entering a name. You can sort the table by any of the categories by clicking on the category header. So you can sort it by number of decisions, approval rate, denial rate, etc.

You can also find information on all the ALJs at that location by searching at the Federal Employee Salary Database at:

http://php.app.com/fed_employees/search.php

Agency – enter Social Security Adminstration

Job Title – enter Adminstrative Law Judge

Location – enter State – then enter County

It will list all the ALJs in 2008 at that location (and their 2008 salaries).

You can take this info back to the ALJ decision database and look up the stats for all the ALJs at that office.

[giz]

how do i find out what evidence they had,because there was several things he said that wasnt true one of which was that i never had a mri on my brain

[free_spirit_etc]

how do i find out what evidence they had,because there was several things he said that wasnt true one of which was that i never had a mri on my brain

Your denial letter should indicate the evidence they used. It should discuss it in the narrative - and our letters also had several pages listing all the evidence they considered (with dates and evidence numbers).

You should also be able to view your whole file. I am not sure if you can still do that at the Hearing Office or not. Our cases were paper files, which is unusual anymore. But they let me look at the whole folder and make copies of anything I wanted. (Here is the file. The copy machine is right there. Have at it.)

But they also told me if our files were electronic, they could have just made me a copy of the whole thing on CD.

I am not clear. Did he say you had an MRI on your brain and you did not? Or did he say you did not have one and you did?

Either way, I guess it is an error. But since your case is already denied, the more errors in the decision, the better case you have for getting the decision put aside by the Appeals Council. (But again, that is a long and winding road).

[Pete53]

Thank you Free for your patience and willingness to help Veterans.

[giz]

i had problems with dizzness for two years and judge said there was know evidence in my med records or from my doctors or my doctors giving me a MRI.thats why it makes know since because the dizzness was the reason my doctor sent me for a MRI.plus i have been being treated for ibs and colitis ever since returning from the gulf in 1991 and had 6 scopes done and infact was scheuled for another one two days after my hearing and he wanted to see what the doctor found so we sent him the results after the scope was done and this is what is crazy because the scope was scheuled to see if a ulser that i had been taking antibiotics for had gone away so when i got the result back it said know abnormalitys were found and so he used this to say there was nothing wrong with me.ignoring all the other evidence.like the other 6 scopes that showed cronic IBS and colitis and other one that showed i had a bad ulser.so i guess all the pills i take for IBS/colitis,pain meds for joint pain and xanax for anxiety are just for the hell of it,none of that was ever talk about in the decision.he even ignored his own psychaiatric doctor that said that i had panic disorder.but he found know where in my med. records that i had been being treated for that,so he is not giving it any significant probative weight.also he said none of the claiments treating sources have rendered an opinion concerning the claimants abilitiy to work.which is B.S. because i sent letters from both of my doctors saying i cant work,so i dont know if this guy is ignoring all the evidence some of the evidence or what he got from disability group or my doctors but looking at the things i know he got he definitly ignored that.its just wrong

[giz]

thanks free and everyone for the help i dont post much, but im always reading everybodys journey thru the madness,thanks again :)