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Originally Posted by legalmania
That is not what I said: this is what I said "It use to be attorneys would not touch Social Security but somewhere a law was passed and they can now get up to $5,000." If you go to SS case law at some point $5,000 was what they were entitled to, so I wouldn't agree with you that it (never was). I never said anything about the month. I don't know where your getting this. I'm baffled.
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I tried to find the date this "law was passed" that you referenced and can't find a date. However, lawyers have been able to charge fee for representation for several decades, probably back to the 70's or 80's. Possibly earlier. You sentence made it seem to me that you were referring to a recent change, but you are right that you didn't actually use those terms.
But the fee cap for fee agreements was $4000, then $5300 and now $6000. Not going up by the month. For fee petition, there is no cap except the 25% of retroactive benefits.