Best Wishes for the Fourth of July, which falls on a Monday this year for a 3-day weekend.

Our offices will be closed for the holiday.

Here are ten posts from the first half of this year that are worth revisiting, or worth reading for the first time if you missed them when originally published:

The Social Security "Logical Bridge"

One Residual Functional Capacity, Two Outcomes

On-line Access to the Electronic Claim File

The 2010 Waterfall Chart

Statement from a Spouse…

Notable posts from the Social Security disability blogs are linked here every other Friday:

• Who is your Administrative Law Judge? from Social Security Disability Lawyer published by Gordon Gates
• Social Security Inspector General Asked To Investigate Outlier ALJs from Social Security News published by Charles Hall
• Documenting Social Anxiety for Social Security from Colorado Social

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Every other Friday I post links to notable posts from the Social Security disability blogs: 

• Report on California Disability Determination Services shows failure to properly adjudicate and Can I receive Social Security Disability benefits and Veterans’ Disability benefits at the same time? from the California Social Security Lawyer Blog published by Geri Kahn
• Social Security

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Only recently did we learn the rates at which Social Security Administrative Law Judges grant and deny the claims they hear. Of course, we disability lawyers would keep track of our own claims, and talked with other disability lawyers about their experience with local judges. But the big picture was never clear.

However, after a…

Every two weeks, I publish a collection of links to recent notable posts from the Social Security disability blogs:

• 75-Day Hearing Notice Should be Nationwide from the Social Security Disability Lawyer blog published by Gordon Gates 
• Social Security hearing: should I bring notes? from the Colorado Social Security Law blog published by the Stasiuk Firm PC

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Atlanta disability attorney and fellow Tulane Law School graduate Jonathan Ginsberg recently posted a video entitled Denial Notices from Social Security. The short video explains why Social Security's form denial notices have no impact on whether or not your case will ultimately be approved.

Jonathan's video got me thinking about those form letters that…

A medical source statement is an opinion from your doctor regarding the nature and severity of your limitations due to your medically-determinable impairments. A medical source statement is often simply a form that is completed and signed by your doctor setting forth the doctor's assessment of your functional limitations. The name derives from a section…