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
- April 1, 2009 -- 490 days
From my current experience,these processing times seemed to be defined from the date the hearing request was received at odar until it was scheduled,not decided.
ReplyDeleteAnyone-else's experience would be enlightening.
If so, the statistics shown here are not only inadequate but also misleading. Even then, the difference between the "processing time" time overall from Feb. 07 to date is about 18 days. Whoopee. I suspect each one of those days of time reduction cost a lot more than it was worth to the claimant.
ReplyDeleteWho, if we are only talking about odar's internal time, could still have a long time before s/he sees dollar $1.
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ReplyDeleteRequest for hearing to issued (at least in my ODAR office). Elsewhere, you may be right.
ReplyDeleteThese people do cook the books. The uninitiated might think that processing time meant how long claimants have waited since their applications, but no--only since the request for hearing. And every time a case comes back on remand, the processiing time starts again at zero (earlier time does not count).
But WHERE is the National Center on that list? Last stats showed them dead last. ????