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Jan 4, 2011

Can You Help?

I am going to bump this up since I still have not gotten anything I can use.

I am doing an article for the NC Advocates for Justice with the title "Social Security By The Numbers." There are a few numbers that I would like to include that I have not been able to find:
  • The amount spent administering a large employer pension plan as a percent of benefits paid
  • The amount spent administering a large long term disability (LTD) pension plan as a percent of benefits paid
  • ALJ allowance rate at the most liberal hearing office in the country
Any help you can give will be appreciated. Links would be helpful.

I expect I will eventually post this article on this blog.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:08 AM, January 04, 2011

    You may be able to extract the ALJ numbers from the information posted by SSA on data.gov. Note that the file is in xml format. See http://www.data.gov/raw/1426#

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  2. Anonymous3:41 PM, January 04, 2011

    Have you checked with labor unions? Some of the larger ones might share this information as they may have their own pension plans.

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  3. Anonymous10:42 PM, January 04, 2011

    Nothing's free. Earn the help.

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  4. Anonymous9:12 PM, January 05, 2011

    Re ALJ numbers: if you extract the dataset on data.gov as the first comment suggests, it will reveal that over the period surveyed both Tallahassee, FL and Toledo, OH had a 100% award rate with 2 and 11 cases respectively; followed by Ponce, PR (84 awards/92 decisions with 2 partially favorable), Mt. Pleasant, MI (20/22), and Rio Grande Valley, TX (10/11) with 91% each.

    These are followed by Brooklyn, NY with an 89% award rate (of 531 decisions, 463 were fully favorable and 11 partially favorable) and San Juan, PR with an 86% award rate (362 decisions, 301 fully favorable, 10 partially favorable).

    The data in this dataset is derived from a one-month period around October 2010, and the values calculated from the smaller offices most likely lack statistical significance. The highest significant rate is likely to be Ponce, PR followed by Brooklyn.

    Perhaps rather interestingly, Ponce also ranks first in ALJ dispositions per day per ALJ. (http://www.ssa.gov/appeals/DataSets/04_Disposition_Per_Day_Per_ALJ_Ranking_FYTD2010.xml) Ranked second is Shreveport, LA, which has the lowest acceptance rate of any hearings office (21% of 609 decisions). If you plot acceptance rate against dispositions/ALJ/day, these two offices alone emerge as distinct outliers on both axes.

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