DDS Allowance Rates

      Social Security has posted statistics on allowance rates at the initial and reconsideration levels on disability claims.

Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) Disability Claims
Allowance Rates1/
Initial and Reconsideration Adjudicative Level
Fiscal Year 2026
by Nation, Region and State
	INITIAL	RECONSIDERATION
NATIONAL	35.9	14.9
NATIONAL - DDS ONLY	35.9	14.9
BOSTON	39.2	15.4
CT	41.7	14.0
ME	39.3	14.3
MA	35.3	15.5
NH	44.0	20.3
RI	44.0	15.7
VT	45.7	16.0
NEW YORK	35.1	14.0
NJ	33.0	13.9
NY	35.6	14.0
PR2/	42.0	14.3
PHILADELPHIA	35.7	14.1
DE	39.1	12.5
DC	33.0	12.5
MD	43.0	16.7
PA	35.7	13.4
VA	36.3	15.4
WV	33.9	12.3
VA EST3/	22.1	13.2
ATLANTA	36.3	15.7
AL	32.8	15.6
FL	42.0	15.7
GA	35.2	21.1
KY	29.9	9.6
MS	35.4	15.1
NC	37.3	14.2
SC	37.3	16.1
TN	34.3	13.6
MS EST3/	0.0	0.0
CHICAGO	35.7	13.7
IL	36.4	16.9
IN	33.4	11.3
MI	34.6	13.5
MN	39.1	9.9
OH	36.3	12.8
WI	35.9	15.7
DALLAS	36.0	16.2
AR	35.1	12.2
LA	37.7	17.8
NM	41.1	20.3
OK	33.6	14.5
TX	36.5	15.5
AR EST3/	33.6	19.0
OK EST3/	32.1	0.0
KANSAS CITY	39.7	12.9
IA	40.0	10.3
KS	43.6	20.7
MO	38.1	13.0
NE	41.3	13.1
DENVER	35.4	14.1
CO	31.9	13.3
MT	38.5	18.2
ND	40.1	17.4
SD	39.4	11.1
UT	37.3	14.8
WY	40.7	14.2
SAN FRANCISCO	33.8	14.9
AZ	29.6	14.8
CA	34.5	15.1
HI	36.8	15.7
NV	35.2	12.8
SEATTLE	35.6	13.2
AK	54.5	33.0
ID	35.1	11.8
OR	36.7	14.3
WA	33.7	12.5
FEDERAL4/	54.1	18.3
San Juan DPU	5/	5/
Atlanta DPB	0.0	0.0
Chicago DPB	91.1	25.0
Kansas City DPB	0.0	0.0
New York DPB	4.2	1.1
Philadelphia DPB	0.0	0.0
San Francisco DPB	0.0	0.0
Boston DPU	5/	5/
Dallas DPU	5/	5/
Denver DPU	5/	5/
Seattle DPU	5/	5/
Philadelphia DPU	5/	5/
OCO	0.0	0.0
INTPSC	44.0	21.2
Guam	48.1	24.8
Virgin Islands	5/	5/
1/Allowance and denial rates equal 100%.
2/Includes Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI, Title II) only as there is no Supplemental Security Income (SSI, Title XVI) in Puerto Rico.
3/ EST DDS data comes from four extended service team sites in Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Virginia. Workload from State DDSs is transferred into these sites.
4/Federal Site data comes from the following SSA sites:  Office of Central Operations; International Payment Service Center; Guam; the Virgin Islands; and Disability Program Branches in the Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Regions.
5/The federal sites that have zero allowance rates are sites where they do not have their own legacy system and complete cases by remotely logging into the legacy system of the state they are assisting.  Therefore, the allowance information rolls up into the state they are assisting.
Note:  Allowance rates are on determinations completed by State Disability Determination Services (DDSs) and other components which make disability determinations.  For workload balancing issues, cases may be transferred to other states or to SSA components for determinations.  Determinations are not always done in the applicants' state of residence.
Cases processed in the ESTs and Federal sites DO NOT include cases under QDD, CAL, and other fast track case screening.  Accordingly, allowance rates in those sites are NOT comparable to regular State DDSs. Allowance rates equal to zero indicate no cases.  High rates may indicate very small numbers of cases.
Produced By: SSA/LDP/DP/ARTS/DSSIT
Date Produced: October 28, 2026
Data Source: SSA SAOR (State Agency Operations Report)