Annual Statistical Supplement, 2015

Program Provisions and SSA Administrative Data

SSA Administrative Data

Hearings and Appeals

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2011–2014
Item 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of ALJs 1,230 1,301 1,356 1,311
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ a 50 50 48 43
Average hearings pending per ALJ 523 533 577 688
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Key Workload Indicator Report.
NOTE: Number of ALJs and average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ based on fiscal year average ALJ availability; average hearings pending per ALJ based on ALJs on duty. Data exclude Regional Chief ALJs.
a. Calculation excludes Attorney Adjudicator decisions.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.
Table 2.F9 Number of hearing level receipts, dispositions, and end-of-year pending cases, fiscal years 2012–2014
Program Hearing level receipts Hearing level dispositions End-of-year pending cases
2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014 2012 2013 2014
Total 849,869 824,989 810,715 820,484 793,580 680,963 816,575 847,984 977,736
OASI 1,902 1,973 2,018 1,886 1,839 1,818 1,138 1,268 1,471
Disability
DI 265,454 264,625 275,384 252,820 245,018 211,270 241,578 260,441 323,749
SSI 247,341 239,355 229,830 234,688 230,345 200,983 246,177 254,969 283,589
DI and SSI 335,172 319,036 303,483 331,090 316,378 266,892 327,682 331,306 368,927
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Case Processing and Management System and Key Workload Indicator Report.
NOTE: Some claims are resclassifed from one program to another during their processing cycle. End-of-year adjustments account for those reclassifications.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.
Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2011–2014
Cases 2011 2012 2013 2014
Beginning-of-year pending 106,664 a 153,242 161,070 157,311
Receipts 173,332 173,848 172,492 155,352
Dispositions 126,992 166,020 176,251 162,280
End-of-year pending 153,004 161,070 157,311 150,383
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Appeals Review Processing System and Key Workload Indicator Report.
a. Because of calendar variations and agency budgeting and accounting rules, one week occasionally falls between the end of one fiscal year and the beginning of the next. In September 2011, that week saw 2,159 receipts and 1,921 dispositions, thus adding 238 cases to the total pending at the end of fiscal year 2011.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.