I did check out your Montana judge.

Judge Opp had NO denials. NO dismissals. NO approvals.

Obviously, he handled NO cases during the time frame of the statistics listed.

Your link shows that the Judge to whom you elude with a zero "approval" rate, also had a ZERO denial rate, and a zero dismissal rate.

In addition to the ALJ Hopeless mentioned, the 2nd ALJ with 0 approvals, Judge Catanese, had only 6 cases which is statistically insignificant and the year prior had nearly a 45% approval rating out of 162 cases.

"For the 2015 *fiscal year, Judge Louis M Catanese has disposed 6 cases at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) in Billings, Montana. Out of those 6 dispostions, 2 were dismissed, 0 were approved and 4 were denied. This means that the percentage of dispositions that Judge Catanese has approved in Billings for the 2015 fiscal year is 0%. The information below for Judge Louis M Catanese was last updated on 6/19/2015."

http://www.disabilityjudges.com/stat...uis-m-catanese

I truly do not understand the continual energy you expend trying to prove how unfair the system is. Are their instances of ALJs with low approval ratings? YES. But for every ALJ with very low approvals, there is often an ALJ with a record that appears too high as well.

More importantly, how in the world will ALJ ratings from Alaska effect you exactly?

and on that note......

i dont know if anyone will belive it (i dont) paul ryan said the other day that cuts wont happen.

I'm trying to help you. I've been trying to help you for months.

Perhaps someone else would be more of a help to you at this point.

be patient. we all have our worries, im table today, yesterday i was close to being baker acted again. its easy when you have an award, people that dont and waiting its a living hell

usually you dont get multiple responses because people dont know the answer to your questions.....not too many people have been to the appeals council and remanded back as many times as you have, if at all.

Just because an ALJ has a certain approval rating doesn't mean that they are unfair.

If an ALJ approves 15% of the cases that came before him, does that mean that those cases were approved unfairly?

What if you were one of those 15% cases that gets approved? Is that unfair?

And what if you were assigned to an ALJ with a 97% approval rating and got denied by that ALJ? Would you still claim the ALJ was unfair?

No governmental system is perfect but be glad that you have had the opportunity for appeals. What if the system was setup in a manner where the initial decision was the ONLY chance one had to present their claim for benefits? What if that was the end of it completely? Just DENIED, end of discussion.

Sure, mistakes "can" be made and some people are denied that may be eligible and some approved that may not be deserving but the system at least gives someone several opportunities to show their eligibility for benefit approval.

Denials are not based on whim. The ALJ states the reasons for denial. Focus on correcting the areas in which you have failed to prove your case, not on your anger at the system.

Hi Mz Migraine,

Sorry the subject matter changed during your thread. I did not mean to perpetuate the change of topic from your original subject matter.