Annual Statistical Supplement, 2006

SSA Administrative Data

Hearing and Appeals

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2003–2005
Item 2003 2004 2005 a
Number of ALJs 975 944 986
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ 49 50 51
Average hearings pending per ALJ 581 607 628
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Key Workload Indicator Report.
NOTE: Data based on Administrative Law Judges'; data exclude Regional Chief ALJs.
a. Revised data.
CONTACT: Sybil Wolfe (703) 605-8772.
Table 2.F9 Number of hearing receipts, dispositions, and end-of-year pending cases, fiscal years 2004–2005
Program Hearing receipts Hearing dispositions End-of-year pending cases
2004 a 2005 a 2004 2005 a 2004 2005 a
Total 634,176 652,011 561,461 605,003 664,276 711,284
OASI 2,480 2,236 2,350 2,332 3,332 3,365
Disability
DI 214,336 212,078 183,816 189,349 225,571 242,545
SSI 155,994 158,648 142,761 141,427 181,375 198,870
DI and SSI 203,802 218,960 168,452 186,251 225,323 263,384
Medicare (Parts A and B and adversarial) 57,564 60,089 64,082 85,644 28,675 3,120
Black Lung 0 0 0 0 0 0
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Key Workload Indicator Report.
a. Revised data.
CONTACT: Sybil Wolfe (703) 605-8772.
Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2003–2005
Cases 2003 2004 2005 a
Beginning-of-year pending 59,781 51,072 45,911
Receipts 92,047 92,540 89,430
Dispositions 100,750 97,701 94,083
End-of-year pending 51,078 45,911 41,258
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Key Workload Indicator Report.
a. Revised data.
CONTACT: Sybil Wolfe (703) 605-8772.