Over the last two years, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has made a host of recent changes to the rules and regulations governing Social Security disability cases. These changes have trended toward making it more difficult for attorneys representing SSD claimants to manage cases, evaluate the potential case strength of claims and withdraw from cases in which the claimants are not cooperating or have disappeared. This can make managing a practice based on contingent-fees far more complex.

Here are some of those recent changes and their effects on Social Security disability practice.

The ‘Five-Day Rule’

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