I would like to add that while these complaints are ongoing.... For example, in what happened with Cassano, it took about 10 months for there to be a final decision. Hearings ongoing with her on which she hadn't made a determination, hearings that had been adjourned for another date, were just left standing. There were claimants who, for 10 months, didn't know when their next hearing date would be, and then they had a letter about a year afterward saying, “Well, you can have a de novo now with a new member.” We can just imagine the ramifications, when they had been so traumatized already, to have to wait during that time.
On March 22nd, 2018. See this statement in context.