In this video Marc Whitehead, a Board Certified Social Security Disability Attorney, explains how you request a time extension on your case.
As an experienced Social Security Attorney, Marc Whitehead gets lots of Social Security questions on a variety of aspects of the process. One of the things that seems to confuse people the most, is how time extensions work. General guidelines used to give representatives 40 days to turn in arguments and evidence but, a few years ago this time was reduced to the standard 25 days to handover any additional materials.
Because that is such a short period of time, it has become far more common for attorneys and claimants to ask for more time. Unfortunately, every single one of these requests have to be looked at individually and is then either approved or denied.
Whats this procedure look like?
So much of the nuts and bolts of the Social Security Process is kept behind closed doors, that here- in this video- you will be given some rare details as to how this process works.
When a request for an extension of time is made in a Social Security Disability case, the request is recorded and sent to the chief branch officer. The Chief Branch Officer will then look at your request and determine whether to grant or deny it.
Whether approved or denied a staff member will draw up a letter explaining the chiefs decision. The letter will then be saved in the appropriate records and mailed to both claimant and lawyer.
Whats Next?
If your request for an extension is approved you better get working to gather the necessary materials to have in by the new date.
What happens if the request wasn’t approved?
Unfortunately there isn’t a whole lot you can do. Once you’ve had a time extension request denied, it is pretty pointless to try and request another extension. Sometimes the Social Security office won’t even respond. That’s why it is so important to work with an experienced Social Security Attorney to get all of your questions answered ahead of time.
