Annual Statistical Supplement, 2012

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2008–2011
Item	2008	2009	2010	2011
Number of ALJs	960	1,057	1,154	1,474
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ ^a	48	49	49	50
Average hearings pending per ALJ	643	575	528	523
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 2009–2011
Program	Hearing level receipts			Hearing level dispositions			End-of-year pending cases
Program	2009	2010	2011	2009	2010	2011	2009	2010	2011
Total	622,851	720,161	859,514	660,842	737,616	793,563	722,822	705,367	771,318
OASI	2,047	2,170	2,164	2,051	2,170	2,658	1,596	1,596	1,098
Disability
DI	193,020	220,974	269,776	228,225	232,801	242,822	210,470	198,643	224,755
SSI	173,210	204,447	243,557	168,887	200,681	227,068	209,318	213,084	229,269
DI and SSI	254,574	292,570	344,017	261,679	301,964	321,015	301,438	292,044	316,196
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Case Processing and Management System and Key Workload Indicator Report.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.

Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2008–2011
Cases	2008	2009	2010	2011
Beginning-of-year pending	53,163	62,210	80,040	106,664
Receipts	92,454	106,965	128,703	173,332
Dispositions	83,407	89,066	102,062	126,992
End-of-year pending	62,210	80,040	^a 106,664	153,004
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review. Actual data from the Appeals Review Processing System and Key Workload Indicator Report.
a. The Appeals Review Processing System recategorized 17 cases after they had been counted as receipts or dispositions.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.

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