A statistical report from Social Security on performance at its Office of Hearings Operations:
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A statistical report from Social Security on performance at its Office of Hearings Operations:
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A statistical report from Social Security on performance at its Office of Hearings Operations:
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A statistical report from Social Security on performance at its Office of Hearings Operations:
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A statistical report from Social Security on performance at its Office of Hearings Operations:
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A statistical report from Social Security on performance at its Office of Hearings Operations:
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April 2024 numbers. From Social Security. Click on image to view full size. |
Below is the recently released stat sheet concerning operations at Social Security's Office of Hearings Operations (OHO).
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Why is OHO getting any overtime? These funds are urgently needed for other parts of the agency. 59,000 hours in April?
Dispositions continue to outpace receipts at Social Security's Office of Hearings Operations (OHO), i.e., it's taking less time to get a hearing on a disability claim. The biggest reason is that cases are hung up at lower levels of review where backlogs are burgeoning. One day that dam will burst and OHO will be inundated.
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I used to post newly released numbers on payments of fees to attorneys and others for representing Social Security claimants. Something like a year ago I posted that the agency hadn't released any new numbers in months. In an apparent response, Social Security finally updated the numbers on their website. However, Social Security hasn't updated its numbers since then. No new numbers on fee payments have been posted since February 2023.
There really is interest in these numbers. I'm sure the agency hasn't stopped collecting the data. It may well be posted on Social Security's intranet. Please release the data to the public.
Social Security has posted final numbers on disability claims and awards for calendar year 2023. With the pandemic tamped down to a level which permits most people to live normally, the number of disability claims filed and awarded increased modestly.
Number of applications |
|
Field office |
Initial DDS |
2009 ..... |
2,816,244 |
1,798,975 |
2010 ..... |
2,935,798 |
1,926,398 |
2011 ..... |
2,878,920 |
1,859,591 |
2012 ..... |
2,824,024 |
1,808,863 |
2013 ..... |
2,653,939 |
1,702,700 |
2014 ..... |
2,536,174 |
1,633,652 |
2015 ..... |
2,427,443 |
1,552,119 |
2016 ..... |
2,321,583 |
1,473,700 |
2017 ..... |
2,179,928 |
1,377,803 |
2018 ..... |
2,073,293 |
1,300,668 |
2019 ..... |
2,015,182 |
1,309,863 |
2020 ..... |
1,838,893 |
1,226,236 |
2021 ..... |
1,820,282 |
1,210,545 |
2022 ..... |
1,804,384 |
1,205,686 |
2023 ..... |
1,904,635 |
1,248,378 |
Number of Awards
2009 .....985,940 |
2010 .....1,052,551 |
2011 .....1,025,003 |
2012 .....979,973 |
2013 .....884,894 |
2014 .....810,973 |
2015 .....775,739 |
2016 .....744,268 |
2017 .....762,141 |
2018 .....733,879 |
2019 ....723,858 |
2020 .....648,121 |
2021 .....571,952 |
2022 .....543,445 |
2023 .....561,585 |
The Social Security Administration has issued its 2023 Annual Statistical Supplement, a huge compendium of all the statistical information you could ask for concerning Social Security programs. Here's one excerpt (footnotes omitted):
Number of SSA full-time staff and work years, fiscal years 1995–2023
Year | Full-time permanent staff a | Total work years b |
---|---|---|
1995 | 62,504 | 67,063 |
1996 | 62,133 | 66,726 |
1997 | 61,224 | 69,378 |
1998 | 59,943 | 67,210 |
1999 | 59,752 | 66,459 |
2000 | 60,434 | 65,521 |
2001 | 61,490 | 65,562 |
2002 | 61,914 | 65,742 |
2003 | 63,569 | 65,343 |
2004 | 63,186 | c 66,154 |
2005 | 63,696 | d 68,026 |
2006 | 61,692 | 66,878 |
2007 | 60,206 | 63,939 |
2008 | 61,920 | 64,358 |
2009 | 65,203 | 67,170 |
2010 | 67,548 | 70,758 |
2011 | 64,744 | 69,936 |
2012 | 62,943 | 67,208 |
2013 | 59,823 | 64,601 |
2014 | 62,956 | 64,006 |
2015 | 63,466 | 67,004 |
2016 |
62,685 | 65,798 |
2017 | 61,250 | 63,957 |
2018 | 61,011 | 64,095 |
2019 | 60,450 | 64,576 |
2020 | 60,364 | 62,291 |
2021 | 58,952 | 61,830 |
2022 | 56,907 | 60,570 |
2023 | 60,026 | 61,771 |