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Heather this is Jonathan Ginsberg I'd like to talk to you today about continuing disability reviews as you may know when you are approved for disability benefits Social Security retains the right to review your case down the road to see if you remain disabled and what we're seeing now is that when judges approve cases they will typically approve it and will indicate whether the review needs to be in three years five years or seven years if it's a five or seven year review that usually means that the judge feels that your disability is likely to be permanent if it is a three-year review then that means the judge feels like you possibly could be seeing some improvement down the road, and it's really important to know which type of review you have in your decision because that would really will help dictate what you should try to do in terms of your ongoing treatment you should still get ongoing treatment, but I think if you're on a three-year review case we're going to see a lot more reviews I think what's happened is that Social Security has made a big effort for the past few years to try to encourage judges to really only approve cases where the evidence is compelling what they found is that judges really resented the intrusion on their independence that even though some newer judges are not necessarily inclined to approve as many cases the older ones that we saw and that the approval rating has gone down some I think that the idea of trying to get judges to approve fewer cases is kind of hit a certain brick wall and I think that there's been some thought within Social Security at least when I'm reading between the lines is that so screwed he feels that it's easier to fight down the road and get people off disability as opposed to preventing them from getting on in the first place and the reason for that kind of makes sense is that when people are applying for benefits, and they can get an attorney like me, I'm paid on past due benefits in other words if somebody applies, and then we have a hearing three years from now or two years from now there may be twenty-four thirty-six months of past due benefits I get paid 25 percent of that up to $6000, so it's relatively easy to get an attorney to take a case on a contingency because there's going to be two or three years perhaps of past due benefits and I can take that case on a contingency by contrast when someone has already been approved, and they get notice of a continuing review then there are no past due benefits because they've been getting their benefits that means if you want to hire me or hire an attorney you're going to have to come out of pocket and most people aren't going to have three or four thousand dollars to pay an attorney to come out of pocket for that so what they're figuring I believe is that most people in the continuing reviews are not going to be represented or these numbers are represented by attorneys maybe a lot of a friend or somebody like that come with them, I think...