The Social Security Administration is encountering growing skepticism about the performance of its administrative law judges, who scrutinize hundreds of thousands of petitions for disability benefits each year.

In April, a federal suit filed in the Eastern District (See Complaint) accused several administrative law judges in Queens of erecting “a brick law of bias” to stymie legitimate claims by disabled individuals with “extremely limited means of subsistence.”

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