The report shown below was obtained from Social Security by the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives (NOSSCR) and published in its newsletter, which is not available online to non-members. It contains basic operating statistics for Social Security's Office of Hearings Operations (OHO).
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The agency has reduced the number of hearings scheduled from 50 per mo per alj to 35. Some in person hearings may be scheduled now that management aljs are coming back to the office in January. there will be a 75 day notice, as usual.
ReplyDeleteI am shocked.
ReplyDeleteOh no! The backlog is up -1 case per ALJ this FY????? The horror! I bet if we could schedule the vast majority of those 365+ cases, the backlog would be under 300k right now. Instead, we just sit with a bloated aged caseload that can’t be scheduled, both artificially inflating the backlog and APT.
ReplyDelete5:11 - exactly. Hearings that don't go forward are moved back into PRE, which used to be a fairly light count. Now our office of 10 ALJs has more cases in PRE (540)than any status except for number scheduled.
ReplyDelete2:03P -- This made me check our current counts. Over 300 in PRE for a slightly smaller office, healthy mix of no-shows we can't dismiss, CDR's we can't schedule, and claimants refusing phone/video hearings.
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