Annual Statistical Supplement, 2014

Program Provisions and SSA Administrative Data

SSA Administrative Data

Hearings and Appeals

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2010–2013
Item 2010 2011 2012 2013
Number of ALJs 1,154 1,230 1,301 1,356
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ a 49 50 50 48
Average hearings pending per ALJ 528 523 533 577
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Key Workload Indicator Report.
NOTE: Number of ALJs and average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ based on fiscal year average ALJ availability; average hearings pending per ALJ based on ALJs on duty. Data exclude Regional Chief ALJs.
a. Calculation excludes Attorney Adjudicator decisions.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.
Table 2.F9 Number of hearing level receipts, dispositions, and end-of-year pending cases, fiscal years 2011–2013
Program Hearing level receipts Hearing level dispositions End-of-year pending cases
2011 2012 2013 2011 2012 2013 2011 2012 2013
Total 859,514 849,869 824,989 793,563 820,484 793,580 771,318 a 816,575 847,984
OASI 2,164 1,902 1,973 2,658 1,886 1,839 1,098 1,138 1,268
Disability
DI 269,776 265,454 264,625 242,822 252,820 245,018 224,755 241,578 260,441
SSI 243,557 247,341 239,355 227,068 234,688 230,345 229,269 246,177 254,969
DI and SSI 344,017 335,172 319,036 321,015 331,090 316,378 316,196 327,682 331,306
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Case Processing and Management System and Key Workload Indicator Report.
NOTE: Some claims are resclassifed from one program to another during their processing cycle. End-of-year adjustments account for those reclassifications.
a. Because of calendar variations and agency budgeting and accounting rules, one week occasionally falls between the end of one fiscal year and the beginning of the next. In September 2011, that week saw 17,733 total receipts and 1,861 total dispositions, thus adding 15,872 cases to the total pending at the end of fiscal year 2011.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.
Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2010–2013
Cases 2010 2011 2012 2013
Beginning-of-year pending 80,040 106,664 a 153,242 161,070
Receipts 128,703 173,332 173,848 172,492
Dispositions 102,062 126,992 166,020 176,251
End-of-year pending b 106,664 153,004 161,070 157,311
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Appeals Review Processing System and Key Workload Indicator Report.
a. Because of calendar variations and agency budgeting and accounting rules, one week occasionally falls between the end of one fiscal year and the beginning of the next. In September 2011, that week saw 2,159 receipts and 1,921 dispositions, thus adding 238 cases to the total pending at the end of fiscal year 2011.
b. The Appeals Review Processing System recategorized 17 cases after they had been counted as receipts or dispositions.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.