What is in a Social Security file?
Just before your Social Security hearing, you will be given a cd and pointed at a computer. If you ask, someone may help you load up the disk and get you to a screen that looks like this: Ok, now what? What is all this stuff and what do I do with it? Social Security uses electronic case files. The image above is the “Exhibit List Index” which may automatically come up when you insert the disk into the computer (if it does not, you may have to browse to your cd and double click “index.html” If in doubt, just ask your kids. The Exhibit List Index is a “table of contents” for the documents in the file. In the above image, you can see there are 4 exhibits in the “B” part of the file. The first one, 1B is a request for hearing and that document is 5 pages long. By clicking on any link (blue underlined text) you will be taken to that exhibit. I know how to move around in the exhibit file, but I don’t know what I am looking at! Ok. The file is divided into different sections, labeled A throug
