From the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) Forum. Click on each page to see it full size.
Compare the average processing time as it has changed over time:
- January 25, 2007 -- 508 days
- May 25, 2007 -- 523 days
- July 28, 2007 -- 528 days
- August 31, 2007 -- 523 days
- November 30, 2007 -- 500 days
- February 29, 2008 -- 511 days
- May 30, 2008 -- 523 days
- June 27, 2008 -- 529 days
- July 31, 2008 -- 530 days
- September 3, 2008 -- 532 days
- November 5, 2008 -- 476 days
- December 3, 2008 -- 480 days
- March 8, 2009 -- 499 days
6 comments:
Thank you mr hall.This blog is truly good a public service.
As a practitioner primarily in Grand Rapids, MI, in RegionV, I always like to check to see how my office, my state and my region stack up. Using cross-country style scoring (1 point for first, 2 for second, 3 for third, etc) we can rank the different ODARs. In recent years Region V, in the heart of the “Rust Belt” has consistently been the slowest region. But this time Region IV scored ODARs number 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8 for a score of 25 points. Region V scored numbers 2, 3, 6, 9 and 10 for a runner up score of 30 points. Congratulations Region V. You have moved to the bottom of the list despite the fact that Atlanta North has dropped all the way to number 8.
When it comes to individual states, however, Michigan is back in the lead. Recently Indiana, Ohio and even Illinois have been in the running. Indiana with numbers 3 and 9 is still a strong contender and Ohio at numbers 10, 17 and 19 is slow. But only Michigan has four hearing offices in the bottom 20, numbers 6, 11, 15 and 16, with its final office coming in at number 26. Only 11 states have ODARs slower than number 27, and all five of Michigan’s are in that category. Of course, that is why thousands of our cases are sent out to California, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Illinois, Vermont, Texas, Missouri, et al. Not only does Michigan lead the nation in unemployment claims, but also in glacial RSDI processing.
Can someone define processing time?Begining to end.
There are several definitions of processing time depending on wheter you are talking about Retirement, Survivors and Medicare claims or DIB claims. In brief, the processing time of all claims is from the date of filing to the date the claim is finally adjucicated (or decided, in bureaucratese.) The claims system is largely computerized so the processing time is extracted by the computer and reported office by office for all cases, and ultimately for the whole agency. Reconsiderations and hearings work the same way except that fewer hearing are completely computerized, so there are separate control systems that keep track of the time from beginning to end of every claim or appeal.
Thanks
Nancy, I don't know what you were trying to convey by "fewer hearing(s) are completely computerized," but please be assured that the entire hearings and appeals process is "computerized." Ain't nobody doing manual counts over there any longer. At the appellate level, the 'computer system' may still be stand-alone, but it's still "computerized."
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