Office of Hearings Operations (OHO)

Office of Hearings Operations (OHO, formerly ODAR or OHA)

On August 8, 2017, Acting Commissioner Nancy A. Berryhill informed employees that the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review ("ODAR") would be renamed to Office of Hearings Operations ("OHO"). The hearing offices had been known as "ODAR" since 2006, and the Office of Hearings and Appeals ("OHA") before that. OHO administers the ALJ hearings for the Social Security Administration. Administrative Law Judges ("ALJs") conduct hearings and issue decisions. 

After an ALJ decision, the Appeals Council considers requests for review of ALJ decisions, and acts as the final level of administrative review for the Social Security Administration (the stage at which "exhaustion" could occur, a prerequisite for federal court review).


SSA considers a debtor at fault when their actions cause or help to cause benefits to be overpaid. SSA applies res judicata at all levels of the claims process to avoid unnecessarily deciding an issue the Agency has already decided based on the same facts, issues, parties, and time period. Res judicata applies to administrative proceedings and means the matter has been decided and may not be pursued further by the same parties. 


An individual or their representative payee may request SSA waive recovery of an overpayment at any time. SSA IS SUPPOSE TO STOP debt-collection activity if the debtor requests SSA waive recovery of the over-payment. 20 C.F.R. § 404.506(c) 


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