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As of March 2008 there were over 750,000 disability cases pending on the SSA books. The average waiting time was 499 days and with the first of the baby boomers applying for social security the caseloads are increasing. This increase is affecting the waiting time on ALL cases including disability.
In one report there is one ALJ (administrative law judge) that has not completed a case in 7 years and another had only completed 40 last year which is far below the 400 to 500 what is expected to be done every year by every ALJ. This dramatically slows the system down. The average is that about 30% of the ALJ's completed less than 400 cases last year. The minumum number of new ALJ need to be hired to make it possible to make the system work like it is intended is 1,250. In a 2006 fiscal report ALJ caseloads averaged from a low of 40 to a high of 1805. So how long your case takes depends largely on how many cases your ALJ has on his/her desk.
There is an article about this and these numbers were taken from that article posted from the Washington Post/ 03032008.
Hugz, Normalee |
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