 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. A recent settlement with the SSA is bringing the former clients of Eric C. Kahn closer to regaining their benefits. The Forgotten 500 will soon be able to request a new hearing that could earn them six years worth of back pay. After a lengthy legal battle and many collaborative efforts, attorney Ned Pillars-Dorf is committed to helping those who were wronged by Kahn. We've had 500 former clients of Eric Kahn who lost their benefits six years ago. Since then their hearings were declared unconstitutional. And as a result of numerous federal court rulings, we were able to enter into a settlement agreement with the SSA that was finalized yesterday, which will allow those 500 people to have their benefits reinstated now if they ask for a new hearing. And if they win their new hearing, they will then get six years worth of back pay, which is significant. Pillars-Dorf says most of the former Kahn clients do not know about the lawsuit and is spreading the word. This wouldn't be possible without the recent administrative changes at the SSA. First of all, there's been a change of leadership within the SSA. And as a result, instead of treating the former Kahn clients as co-conspirators with Mr. Kahn, which was ridiculous, you won't find a Kahn client ever met Mr. Kahn and they'd never been accused of any wrongdoing. They are now the SSA by virtue of this very beneficial settlement agreement that will be finally treated as victims, which they truly are. This is a really good settlement agreement for what we call the Forgotten 500. The truth is they were never forgotten, the volunteer lawyer team that I'm proud to be a member of. We've been fighting for these people for seven years. We've done thousands of hearings, hundreds of U.S. District Court cases. And the big thing is we won an every federal appellate court throughout the nation, which is what led us to this point of getting this very beneficial settlement agreement. It's not everything we wanted. I would have preferred if everybody not only got their benefits back, but their back pay now. We couldn't get that far, but like I said, I think we got nine out of ten. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.