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Podcast: The Lean to the Left Podcast
Episode: Spencer Bishins-Social Security Disability Scandal Revealed
Description: Spencer Bishins, a former Social Security Administration attorney, says administrative law judges often are "incentivized" to decline disability claims in order to keep the agency's "pay rate" low resulting in only about 50 percent of disability requests being approved.On the Lean to the Left podcast, Bishins reveals the common practices used by the agency to discourage approval of disability claims, and says that intervention by members of Congress on behalf of constituents requesting help is generally meaningless."The administrative law judges are federal employees, so they have supervisors," Bishins points out. Those supervisors are under...