United States Ninth Circuit

The dismissal of a claimant's challenge to the Social Security Administration's denial of the claimant's request for a hearing on her application for social security disability insurance benefits, is reversed and remanded, where because the administrative law judge failed to consider whether claimant’s facially valid reasons constituted good cause excusing the delay in her request for a hearing, the claimant was thereby deprived of her due process right to a meaningful opportunity to be heard and to seek reconsideration of an adverse benefits determination.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/30/2013
• Published 09/30/2013

Judges

• NGUYEN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

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