Information On New Hearing Offices

Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has just released The Office of Disability Adjudication and Review’s Staffing Plans Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It is tempting to wonder if this report had something to do with David Foster's abrupt departure from ODAR but there is nothing in the report to suggest that.

The report does give a summary of ODAR's plans for opening new hearing offices this year. I wish I could do this as a table but Blogger makes that almost impossible. What I can do is give you the data separated by commas. First you see the location of the new hearing offices, after a comma there is the number of Administrative Law Judges to be assigned to the offices, after another comma there is the total number of staff to be assigned to the office, and finally, after another comma, you will see the projected opening date for the office.

New Hearing Office Location, ALJs To Be Assigned To Office, Total Staff To Be Assigned To Office, Planned Opening Date (All In 2010)

• Anchorage, Alaska 2, 11, February
• St. Petersburg, Florida 11, 54, May
• Akron, Ohio 12, 58, June
• Livonia, Michigan 10, 49, June
• Madison, Wisconsin 6, 30, June
• Phoenix, Arizona 8, 39, June
• Tallahassee, Florida 5, 45, June
• Toledo, Ohio 10, 49, June
• Covington, Georgia 9, 45, July
• Topeka, Kansas 5, 26, July
• Fayetteville, North Carolina 9, 58, August
• Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 12, 58, August
• Valparaiso, Indiana 12, 63, August
• Totals 111, 585