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Originally Posted by echoes long ago
i doubt that any law firm has that many cases that they have filed a brief for at the appeals council or federal court levels. Its only a very small number of cases that get to that level. So 2 for 2 is a very good record as far as i am concerned.
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http://www.socialsecurity.gov/appeal...tatistics.html
106,964 Appeals Council Requests were made between 10/08 and 9/09. And the AC only finished 89,066 of them in an average time of 8.7 months which left more pending at the end of the fiscal year than was pending at the beginning of the fiscal year. Nothing about number of fully favorable. When the AC does act, they generally choose to remand a case, send it back for either more testimony or a better written decision. Occasionally, they make an independent fully favorable.
The AC can also do own motion reviews of ALJ fully favorable decisions and hold up payment of benefits while they do a full review of the case for legal errors. And if they find a legal error, they will send the case back (remand) to the ALJ to fix the decision, get additional evidence, or change the favorable to a denial.