A recently released report on operations at Social Security's Office of Hearings Operations (OHO):
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Note that in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 OHO had 283,134.40 overtime hours. In the recently concluded FY 2023 OHO had 458,437.69 overtime hours, an increase of 62%. That's extraordinary when you consider the needs of other part of the Social Security Administration. OHO is so much more visible to Congress than boring parts of Social Security such as the teleservice centers and payment centers.
How about spreading some of that overtime money to the Court Case Branch so they can get claimants paid in less than 12 months.
ReplyDeleteWhen that happens, you will complain about work not getting done from the places they took the overtime from. Never ends…
ReplyDelete@ 11:14 AM. Right now, OHO is the last place that needs the overtime. ALJs are sitting around with nothing to do. While there are some issues, like file workup, that are lagging behind, the field offices and payment centers are drowning and need the appropriations way more than OHO does.
ReplyDeleteWhat ALJs are doing is office dependent. Some ALJs are getting 50 hearings a month and drowning in multiple massive files being stacked on the same hearing day with multiple such days during the same week.
DeleteI was looking back at the October 2019 post, and 43% of the pending cases were >365 days old. Now we’re down to 17%, though the super-aged number is still relatively high compared to 4 years ago. I wonder how many of those are T16 prisoner cases where the jails/prisons refuse to communicate with OHO and management refuses to do anything but continue to needlessly schedule these cases with no hope of hearing them.