Annual Statistical Supplement, 2014

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2010–2013
Item	2010	2011	2012	2013
Number of ALJs	1,154	1,230	1,301	1,356
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ ^a	49	50	50	48
Average hearings pending per ALJ	528	523	533	577
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 2011–2013
Program	Hearing level receipts			Hearing level dispositions			End-of-year pending cases
Program	2011	2012	2013	2011	2012	2013	2011	2012	2013
Total	859,514	849,869	824,989	793,563	820,484	793,580	771,318	^a 816,575	847,984
OASI	2,164	1,902	1,973	2,658	1,886	1,839	1,098	1,138	1,268
Disability
DI	269,776	265,454	264,625	242,822	252,820	245,018	224,755	241,578	260,441
SSI	243,557	247,341	239,355	227,068	234,688	230,345	229,269	246,177	254,969
DI and SSI	344,017	335,172	319,036	321,015	331,090	316,378	316,196	327,682	331,306
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.
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 17,733 total receipts and 1,861 total dispositions, thus adding 15,872 cases to the total pending at the end of fiscal year 2011.
CONTACT: Chuck Gramens (703) 605-8413 or statistics@ssa.gov.

Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2010–2013
Cases	2010	2011	2012	2013
Beginning-of-year pending	80,040	106,664	^a 153,242	161,070
Receipts	128,703	173,332	173,848	172,492
Dispositions	102,062	126,992	166,020	176,251
End-of-year pending	^b 106,664	153,004	161,070	157,311
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.
b. 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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