Annual Statistical Supplement, 2007

SSA Administrative Data

Hearings and Appeals

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2004–2006
Item 2004 2005 2006
Number of ALJs 944 986 1,018
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ 50 51 46
Average hearings pending per ALJ 607 628 644
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' availability; data exclude Regional Chief ALJs.
CONTACT: Sybil Wolfe (703) 605-8772.
Table 2.F9 Number of hearing level receipts, dispositions, and end-of-year pending cases, fiscal years 2005–2006
Program Hearing level receipts Hearing level dispositions End-of-year pending cases
2005 a 2006 2005 a 2006 2005 2006
Total 652,011 559,197 605,003 563,220 711,284 715,568
OASI 2,236 2,154 2,332 2,310 3,365 3,068
Disability
DI 212,078 204,590 189,349 198,094 242,545 242,253
SSI 158,648 143,107 141,427 148,374 198,870 195,737
DI and SSI 218,960 208,119 186,251 210,200 263,384 274,510
Medicare (Parts A and B and adversarial) 60,089 1,227 85,644 4,242 3,120 0
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 2004–2006
Cases 2004 2005 a 2006
Beginning-of-year pending 51,072 45,911 42,815
Receipts 92,540 90,987 94,755
Dispositions 97,701 94,083 93,538
End-of-year pending 45,911 42,815 44,032
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.