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Claims NOT in CARES (paper claims): The paper folder will be kept at DDB for 60 and then destroyed if an appeal application is not received. This page last updated in Release Number: 15-03 Release Date: 11/24/2015 Effective Date: 11/24/2015 5.5 Reconsideration/Hearing 5.5.1 Reconsideration/Hearing Introduction Send reconsideration/hearing requests to the following address: Disability Determination Bureau P.O. Box 7886 Madison, WI 53707-7886 Reconsideration/hearing requests must be received by the DDB within 45 days of the date of the Denial Notice. Late requests cannot be honored. If a claimant’s request was received by DDB after the 45-day deadline, DDB will notify the claimant that his or her reconsideration/hearing request has been denied. DDB will conduct a reconsideration of the denial when the appeal application is received within the 45- day deadline. If DDB reverses the decision to an allowance: Claims in CARES: For claimants found disabled, DDB will send all the evidence and a completed SSA-831 (Disability Determination and Transmittal form) to CARES. The paper file at DDB will be destroyed after it is confirmed that the information is in CARES. Claims NOT in CARES (paper claims): For claimants found disabled, DDB will send the paper file with all the evidence and a completed SSA-831 to the IM agency for storage for future use in the redetermination process. If DDB affirms the denial, the paper file will be sent directly to the DHA, which will then schedule a hearing. Claims in CARES: DDB will electronically send all the evidence, a completed SSA-831, worksheet notes, and a flag sheet to CARES. The flag sheet, the first page of the worksheet notes, indicates that the paper folder was sent to DHA for a hearing. Claims NOT in CARES (paper claims): DDB does not send any notification to the IM agency. If, in a fair hearing, a person is found to be disabled, and the ALJ does not specify a diary date for review, contact DDB and request a diary date to review the disability. When a DDB disability denial decision is overturned by the DHA, the disability determination is valid as of the disability approval and disability onset dates established by DHA.