Spencer Bishins, Author of Social Security Disability Revealed
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome a special guest to the show, Spencer Bishins. Spencer is an author and former attorney for the Social Security Administration.
Spencer Bishins has a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and a law degree from Florida State University. After law school, he worked in the private sector for two years prior to joining the Social Security Administration (SSA) in 2010. He worked at the Appeals Council for almost four years, reviewing thousands of disability decisions for compliance with SSA’s complex rules and procedures. He then worked at the hearing level for seven years, where he drafted almost 2,000 decisions for SSA Administrative Law Judges.
After working for SSA for more than 10 years, he wanted to help demystify the complicated disability system. His first book, Social Security Disability Revealed: Why it’s so hard to access benefits and what you can do about it, explores the obstacles that disability claimants face as they try to access benefits.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care. |
| 0:06.0 | With discussions on important age-related matters and topics, |
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| 0:23.0 | Hello, and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.0 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, |
| 0:28.0 | we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is. |
| 0:34.0 | And that's why we try and make each episode here. |
| 0:36.0 | At All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:39.0 | Today, we are welcoming former attorney for the Social Security Administration, Spencer Bissions. |
| 0:46.0 | Spencer worked for almost 11 years helping with the process of Social Security Disability for the SSA. |
| 0:53.0 | And he is now the author of the book, Social Security Disability Revealed. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome, Spencer. |
| 0:59.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:01.0 | You're very welcome. |
| 1:02.0 | So Spencer, let's start with a little bit of background about your experience. |
| 1:05.0 | You were working for the Social Security Administration, |
| 1:08.0 | and kind of share with us our viewers and listeners what it was your role was there. |
| 1:13.0 | Sure. So I was hired in 2010 at the appeals council, |
| 1:19.0 | and that's the part of Social Security that reviews appeals of cases |
| 1:26.0 | that have already been in front of a judge. |
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