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Monday, 16 September 2013

Depends Upon How You Want To Look At It

Posted on 05:47 by Unknown
     From the Chattanooga Times Free Press:


A congressional panel that earlier this year criticized judges for
lavishly awarding Social Security disability benefits might have been
talking about Tennessee.


It depends how you crunch the numbers.


Nearly two-thirds of administrative law judges in Tennessee grant
benefits to more than half the sick and injured workers who come before
them
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