Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if they're up to something. With the number of people on disability growing ** it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Social Security has changed a regulation somewhere to bump people up from Low to Medium or from Medium to High without a corresponding profile score increase.

It would hike up the number of full CDRs being done. Of course, without more money to process them, the agencies doing them will get severely backlogged, which means that while they are pestering a few people who really don't need a full review, others could go extra months or even years without getting one.

Of course, the CR for government funding runs out in April and Congress could send more money for these. It was probably only a matter of time. They've been making it harder to get an initial award to begin with for several years, and the number of fully favorable decisions has been falling since around 2010.

Again, it's only a hypothesis. Time will tell.