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Post by arkstfan on Jun 8, 2021 21:02:58 GMT -5
Even withdrawals require HOCALJ review and must cite to the record according to QR so no more boilerplate WD dismissals. If you are not running your WD dismissals by the HOCALJ, please start or at least ask for clarification. I’d hate to see you accused of being “non-compliant” my friend. Whoever’s requiring that is misinformed. Only FTA/untimely filing require HOCALJ to sign off. That’s the situation for us. My remand rate of dismissals is very very low. |
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Post by southerner on Jun 15, 2021 13:46:24 GMT -5
I understood why DISM should have been avoided during early Covid pandemic, but not at 16 months after the fact. We need to move forward. If people do not provide contact information or do not answer the phone repeatedly after more than a year, I don't feel it should be reset a number of times or even moved to a hold status. We have been seeing an increased number of cessations and about half of mine do not answer the phone, do not respond to VM or mail, do not have VM set up, or do not have a valid working number. To me, that would normally constitute constructive abandonment and I would enter a DISM w/o prejudice with a caveat that claimant was free to refile and seek reopening in the future if they wished.
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