Annual Statistical Supplement, 2023

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2019–2022
Item	2019	2020	2021	2022
Number of ALJs	1,420	1,315	1,235	1,132
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ ^a	47	37	30	26
Average hearings pending per ALJ	395	306	273	295
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations. Actual data from Case Processing Management System (CPMS) Management Information.
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: Rachel Artz at rachel.artz@ssa.gov or statistics@ssa.gov.

Table 2.F9 Number of hearing level receipts, dispositions, and end-of-year pending cases, fiscal years 2020–2022
Program	Hearing level receipts			Hearing level dispositions			End-of-year pending cases
Program	2020	2021	2022 ^a	2020	2021	2022 ^a	2020	2021	2022 ^a
Total	428,810	382,870	349,329	585,918	451,046	352,899	418,313	350,137	346,567
OASI	552	1,073	1,676	779	1,054	942	862	881	1,615
Disability
DI	164,730	153,600	147,767	219,149	176,288	144,882	149,239	126,264	128,909
SSI	118,863	102,132	90,755	168,080	123,436	94,238	132,785	111,367	107,783
DI and SSI	144,665	126,065	109,131	197,910	150,268	112,837	135,427	111,625	108,260
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations. Actual data from Case Processing Management System (CPMS) Management Information.
NOTES: Some claims are resclassifed from one program to another during their processing cycle. End-of-year adjustments account for those reclassifications.
OASI = Old-Age and Survivors Insurance; DI = Disability Insurance; SSI = Supplemental Security Income.
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. Although September 2022 included such a week, data for that week are not available. Values shown are as of the end of the 52nd week of fiscal year 2022.
CONTACT: Rachel Artz at rachel.artz@ssa.gov or statistics@ssa.gov.

Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2019–2022
Cases	2019	2020	2021	2022 ^a
Beginning-of-year pending	91,400	119,185	57,327	50,634
Receipts	171,978	129,876	111,722	84,935
Dispositions	144,193	191,734	118,415	88,635
End-of-year pending	119,185	57,327	50,634	46,934
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations. Actual data from the Appeals Review Processing System (ARPS) Management Information.
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. September 2022 included such a week, and the values shown for fiscal year 2022 include the 1,299 receipts and 2,240 dispositions (and the resulting reduction in pending cases by 941) that occurred in that week.
CONTACT: Joseph Deluca at joseph.deluca@ssa.gov or statistics@ssa.gov.

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