Hi I’m Teresa Rerko, one of the attorneys here  at Quatrini Law Group, and I wanted to touch today on a topic I was recently asked about  and that is how will the government furlough, the government shutdown, affect social security  disability claims. And so my best answer is I think it will stall things. Currently the local  offices are still functioning, but with limited requirements in terms of what they are allowed  to do and not allowed to do. They have a very specific list that they are following. And we  just learned this week that federal district court here in Western Pennsylvania has stayed  virtually all cases. There are some exceptions,

but they have stayed which means they’ve put  on hold in cases that include any appeals of Social Security Disability claims. Now we don’t  see many cases at federal court, but if your case is at that level in a disability claim it’s on  hold, and we have no idea where that will lead, how much time will be involved until it starts up,  when it finally starts, it’ll start where it left off, and there’s unfortunately nothing that we  can do to move it along in the interim. Thank you.