Over the past few weeks there have been a couple newspaper articles written about the Wisconsin Social Security disability backlog. On September 19, the Wisconsin State Journal ran an article with the headline, “People seeking Social Security benefits face huge backlog, long delays“. The LaCrosse Tribune followed up with an article on September 20 with the headline “Wisconsin’s Social Security disability case backlog among worst in U.S.; new video conferencing expected to help in La Crosse.” There isn’t much in the articles that isn’t known to folks who follow this blog, but it is interesting to see how the state press is handling the situation.
The Wisconsin State Journal also ran an article about the staffing situation at the Wisconsin Disability Determination Bureau indicating that employees at that state agency – which makes disability determinations at the initial and reconsideration levels – will be subject to mandatory furloughs due to the state budget shortfall.
Don’t think the backlog problem or the bad press for SSA is limited to Wisconsin. In the same week, The Detroit News ran this story about the situation in Michigan.
