Tidbits from the POMS & HALLEX to Assist at Every Step of the Sequential Process for Hearings – NOSSCR 2026 Fall National Conference – Track II (Presented by National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives)

The reference landscape is moving. The HALLEX is being folded into the POMS, and the fold comes with some critical changes. Citations that were right yesterday need rechecking — and the representatives who know where the internal guidance now lives hold the advantage.

The value runs at every step of the sequential process for hearings. The right citation puts agency guidance behind your position. The critical internal information tells you what the agency’s own materials require of it. Together they assist with wins administratively — and when the administrative result goes the other way, the same citations preserve these issues for appeal, if needed.

You walk out with the tidbits in hand: the right POMS and HALLEX citations, the critical internal information behind them, and their use at every step of the sequential process — for the administrative win first, the preserved appeal second.