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Feb 7, 2009

New Hearing Office For Tampa Bay Area

The St. Petersburg Times reports that while making an appearance in Tampa with a local Congresswoman Commissioner Astrue promised a new Social Security hearing office for the Tampa Bay area. Astrue cited the large backlog of cases awaiting hearings in the area.

According to the most recent report, the Tampa hearing office ranked number 121 in average processing time. Here is a list of offices with worse processing times going from bad to worst:
  • Detroit
  • Fort Wayne
  • Omaha
  • Kansas City
  • Milwaukee
  • Buffalo
  • Grand Rapids
  • Columbia
  • Bronx
  • Cincinnati
  • Atlanta North
  • Portland
  • Dayton
  • Lansing
  • Oak Brook
  • Columbus
  • Springfield
  • Madison
  • Indianapolis
  • Greensboro
  • Jackson
  • Oak Park
  • Greenville

2 comments:

  1. post january backlog report.

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  2. The HOD of at least one of these offices is assigned to a group (Cadre - in SSA terminology) of managers who goes around the country to other offices and teaches the managers in those offices how to achieve similar achievements.

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