Many Social Security reps have been appealing cases on the issue that appointment of the former SSA commissioner was tainted by an unconstitutional  statute that governed the President’s removal authority over the Commissioner. The 9th Cir. has now held that claimant must demonstrate that the unconstitutional provision actually caused the claimant harm. Without demonstration of such harm, a claimant is not entitled to a remedy, despite the unconstitutionality of the statute. Read the case: Kauffman v.
Kijakazi, — F.4th –, 21-48844, 2022 WL 1233238 (9th Cir. April 27, 2022); https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/04/27/21-35344.pdf.