u/RC161

Mid 50s. Male. I have been unemployed for a year and just received a diagnosis that I am autistic… commonly referred to as Asperger’s. Basically I was white knuckling sales jobs for 30 years. I have applied to 1000+ jobs. LinkedIn is sick and tired of me. What I believe is no one wants a late in life 50 something white male. I will do just about anything now. Not “depressed” but most days I just laugh at how pathetic my life is… while I look at my two brothers who are multi millionaires and each own multiple homes and they probably look at me and think… what the F happened to him

With slater/archer
Option C
Filed med lien paperwork with trust on April 9
Portal status changed June 10
Received closing statement June 27 after direct outreach Archer executives
Received payment two business days after signing closing statement. Used Zelle and received it one day faster than direct deposit
Now I am chasing the 35% they held back for med lien searches
Life rewards action. Go get it.

I am with Slater and consequently Archer. I chose Option C. Today I received my closing statement only to discover that 34.5% of my disbursement was held back due to a “med lien holdback”. I have no Medicare/Medicaid liens whatsoever. All of slater/archer’s liens have to be cleared by a company called Zipliens. I will be posting their executive’s email addresses Monday in an effort to accelerate them clearing my liens and me getting the remaining 34.5% of my disbursement.

I have had enough! Time to light up Slater’s CEO and Archer’s CEO’s email box:

Archer CEO: Robert Avery ravery@archersystems.com

Slater CEO: Linc Leder
Lleder@sssfirm.com

These two need to hear from us… the people getting screwed by their inefficiency and carelessness! Let them have it!

Slater uses Archer to settle and fund the claims. The archer customer service is about as worthless as possible. They provide no info at all. Their common phrases:
> You are welcome to call back periodically for an update.
> We process closing statements in batches not individually.
> We are waiting on a closing statement from your attorney(after my attorney said they sent the information last week).

I don’t understand the game here but it is irritating!

My portal status switched to “Payment Made” on Wed June 10. I called Archer the same day, and they said they had not received the closing statement from Slater. I spoke with Archer today, and they stated they are “actively working” on the closing statement. They also said I was welcome to “call back periodically” to check the status of the closing statement. Frankly, I don’t know if they are telling me the truth or just reading from a script.

On the portal you cannot see how much the trust disburses to the attorneys? And we are supposed to just trust the attorneys? This whole situation makes me not trust anyone involved.

My portal status has changed to - payment made. I am with Slater/Archer. This will be my 3.2% payment and I chose Option C. Any guess how soon I will receive my money?

I filed my lien release on March 9. On April 9, slater informed me that the form was filed incorrectly and they refiled it on April 9. So 62 days.

I am awaiting my second disbursement and while I am not desperate for the money I would like to get my hands on it sooner than later.

My lien form was filed April 9, option C. Any suggestions how to accelerate it or make it happen faster?

Thanks!

Is it me or the Trust’s “we only process payments on Tuesdays” stupid? Now with the shift from determining claims to actually making payments their stupid policy does not make any sense. At the very least process payments twice per week if not five days per week! Geez cmon!

Well the trust is not exactly a model of efficiency. May numbers are out.

1. Total May dollar amount of disbursements are down more than 50% from March and April.
2. “Claims determined” are 75% less than the average of the past six months and the number of claims determined in May is at an all time low.
3. The gap between “claims determined” and “claims determinations” issued increased for the first time all year.
   One positive note, claim disbursements issued is the highest since January.

My thesis has been and these numbers reaffirm it from multiple angles - these people working at the trust have no incentive to be efficient and accelerate payments and they are going to draw this out as long as possible to milk the trust for as much money as possible.

It’s all quite sad.

I would like to point out something funny - the statuses the portal uses.

“Release and Payment Processing” -> the “ing” infers the there is actually something happening. I have had the same status since mid February.

“Payment Review in Progress” -> once again this status infers that something is happening, yet my status has been in this same status since mid Feb.

Both of these things are minor but it does give some insight to the Trust’s challenging relationship with the truth.

I have been trying to figure out why the trust is so slow in processing. So I did some analysis on the numbers the trust published monthly…

1 Over the past six months the trust is averaging 1914 claims determined per month. As of May 1 the trust has 3186 Matrix claims remaining to determine. So one would think that they should finish all of the determinations by end of June and then they can shift resources to processing payments?

2 Over the past three months the difference between claims determined and claims determinations issued has shrunk to less than 1000. So not much work left issuing determinations.

3 The most concerning fact… over the past six months the trust is averaging 861 disbursements per month and over the past three months the trust is averaging only 451 disbursements per month. The disbursements are slowing by almost 50% At that rate, the last person to be paid out will be in 48 months or May of 2030.

My conclusion… the trust is being efficient in determining claims but slow walking payments (shocker!!!).

I have two hopes…

1 once the determination of questionnaires is completed the trust can shift resources from the determination and issuing determinations issued process to the payment process.

2 some type of catalyst (the trust reading this or some attorney or agent lights a fire under the trust) is injected into the trust to expedite payments.

The one thing I keep coming back to is the people working for the trust have no incentive to be efficient. The faster they do their job the sooner they are out of a job. We have seen this with the healthcare lien process. It is a convoluted multi step process that requires more evaluation by the trust which preserves their job even longer.

I can only hope that there is some change as the status quo is not acceptable.

I am so sick and tired of them! On February 13 they sent an email to everyone they represented saying they would be in touch “shortly” about the healthcare lien form. 100+ days later - no communication! What a freaking joke! Just get me my money slater! Geez!