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From RN Collins, selected work

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The articleRead RN's full article in The Polymath polymath-rn-collins.beehiiv.com

Research cited

  1. 20 C.F.R. 404.911, Good cause for missing the deadline to request review law.cornell.edu
  2. SSA Form HA-501 (06-2022), Request for Hearing by Administrative Law Judge ssa.gov
  3. U.S. GAO, Administrative Burden: OMB Should Update Instructions to Help Agency Assessment Efforts, GAO-25-107239 (April 2025) gao.gov
  4. Moynihan, Herd and Harvey, Administrative Burden, JPART 25(1) (2015) academic.oup.com

Other sources

  1. SSA, SSI appeals page and Electronic Appeals Terms of Service ssa.gov
  2. White House Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable, 2022 Report: Access to Justice through Simplification justice.gov
  3. Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable, Access to Justice in Federal Administrative Proceedings (2023) justice.gov

Images, slide by slide

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A public computer workstation at the Portland Central Library in Oregon: a flat monitor and keyboard on a wooden table with a numbered Internet station signPhoto: Another BelieverPhoto record
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A hand-held office date stamp with a red handle and rotating date wheels lying on a sheet of paper on a deskPhoto: Jiri SedlacekPhoto record
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A white 2020 Census mailing envelope reading Shape your future, START HERE and my2020census.gov, sticking out of an open residential mailboxPhoto: Rep. Salud CarbajalPhoto record
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An empty federal courtroom in the Wayne N. Aspinall Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Grand Junction, Colorado, seen from the galleryPhoto: Carol M. Highsmith, LOCPhoto record
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A public counter in the clerk of court's office at the Madison Parish Courthouse, Louisiana, with bound civil index books, a self-inking stamp at the right edge and two computer monitors behindPhoto: KtkvtshPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: a wall of gray steel filing cabinets with a rolling metal step ladder in the clerk of court's records room at the Madison Parish Courthouse, LouisianaPhoto: KtkvtshPhoto record
Slide 6
A long row of public computer terminals in the Old Metairie Library in Louisiana, with a bright reading area behindPhoto: Infrogmation of New OrleansPhoto record
Slide 7
The exterior of a Social Security Administration field office in Corning, New York, a low pale brick building with a wall plaque that reads Social Security Administration, entrance located on opposite side of buildingPhoto: J. PassepartoutPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: a covered arcade walkway running along Beckwith Hall at President William McKinley High School in Honolulu, leading toward the building entrancePhoto: Joel BradshawPhoto record
Slide 8b
Illustrative photo: the empty judge's bench in a Hennepin County District Court courtroom in Minneapolis, with the court seal on the wood-paneled wall, an American flag, a framed notice and a chair behind a granite-topped counterPhoto: Tony WebsterPhoto record
Slide 9
An orange Take-A-Tab number ticket dispenser with a few paper tickets pulled from it, the device used to order a queue in a public officePhoto: Mike MozartPhoto record

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