Mar 4, 2012

Major Increase In Fee Payments In March

     These are Social Security's numbers on payments of fees to attorneys and others for representing claimants before the agency. These payments are not an expense of the Social Security Administration. They come out of the back benefits of the claimants involved. This is a useful analog to show the speed at which Social Security is able to pay claimants after they are approved for benefits. A slowdown in these fees means a slowdown in getting claimants on benefits and a speedup in these payments means a speedup in getting claimants paid.

Fee Payments

2011

Month/Year Volume Amount
Jan-11
34,467
$113,459,847.04
Feb-11
33,305
$107,796,771.38
Mar-11
34,885
$112,463,768.46
Apr-11
48,033
$153,893,755.37
May-11
36,479
$115,159012.77
June-11
33,568
$104,782,743.07
July-11
40,451
$123,981,011.36
Aug-11
35,575
$109,778,785.74
Sept-11
36,159
$109,990,042.36
Oct-11
27,269
$79,526,149.33
Nov-11
32,677
$100,272,851.46
Dec-11
38,447
$116,455,779.92
 



2012
Jan-12
29,926
89,749,312.99
Feb-12
43,946
134,207,416.10

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just getting back to the norm.

Anonymous said...

funny what a little OT can do...

Anonymous said...

PC7 has overtime back and I now spend my Saturdays issuing payments to attorneys (among other duties)

Anonymous said...

Now there's a budget cut item of which the neo-Cons can make an easy target!