As an experienced Social Security Disability attorney, I get lots of Social Security questions on a variety of aspects of the process including time extensions. Often I refer people to our free eBook but I also try to answer some questions here.
Probably one of the things that is most confusing to people is how time extensions work. General guidelines used to give claimants and representatives 40 days to turn in arguments and evidence, but this time was reduced a few years ago to a standard of 25 days to hand over any additional material.
Because that’s such a short period of time, it’s become far more common for attorneys and claimants to ask for more time. Unfortunately, every single one of these requests has to be looked at individually and either approved or denied.
What Is This Procedure Like?
So much of the nuts and bolts of Social Security is kept behind closed doors that I thought I would detail exactly how this approval process works.
- A Social Security Disability attorney requests a second extension.
- The request is recorded and sent to the Branch Chief for a decision.
- The Branch Chief will look at the request and decide to grant or deny it, then assign the record to a member of the support staff.
- This person will see if the request was granted or denied and draw up the appropriate paperwork.
- For an approval, they will create an OAO DGS COR 22 letter that grants you extra time. For a denial, they will prepare a COR 19 letter telling you that your request was not granted.
- The letter will be saved in the appropriate records, then mailed to both the claimant and their lawyer, if it is deemed necessary.
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What’s Next?
If your request for an extension is approved, you’d better get working to get the necessary materials in by the new date. But what if it wasn’t approved?
Well, unfortunately there’s not a whole lot that you can do. Once you’ve had a time extension request denied, it’s pretty pointless to try to request a third extension. The office won’t even respond! That’s why it’s so important to work with an experienced Social Security Disability attorney and get your Social Security questions answered ahead of time.
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