Annual Statistical Supplement, 2022

Table 2.F8 Workload of SSA's Administrative Law Judges (ALJs), fiscal years 2018–2021
Item	2018	2019	2020	2021
Number of ALJs	1,487	1,420	1,315	1,235
Average monthly hearing dispositions per ALJ ^a	43	47	37	30
Average hearings pending per ALJ	534	395	306	273
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations. Actual data from Case Processing Management System (CPMS) Management Information.
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: Rachel Artz at rachel.artz@ssa.gov or statistics@ssa.gov.

Table 2.F9 Number of hearing level receipts, dispositions, and end-of-year pending cases, fiscal years 2019–2021
Program	Hearing level receipts			Hearing level dispositions			End-of-year pending cases
Program	2019	2020	2021	2019	2020	2021	2019	2020	2021
Total	510,901	428,810	382,870	793,863	585,918	451,046	575,421	418,313	350,137
OASI	1,155	552	1,073	1,459	779	1,054	1,083	862	881
Disability
DI	186,531	164,730	153,600	288,621	219,149	176,288	204,041	149,239	126,264
SSI	154,163	118,863	102,132	238,052	168,080	123,436	182,133	132,785	111,367
DI and SSI	169,052	144,665	126,065	265,731	197,910	150,268	188,164	135,427	111,625
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations. Actual data from Case Processing Management System (CPMS) Management Information.
NOTES: Some claims are resclassifed from one program to another during their processing cycle. End-of-year adjustments account for those reclassifications.
OASI = Old-Age and Survivors Insurance; DI = Disability Insurance; SSI = Supplemental Security Income.
CONTACT: Rachel Artz at rachel.artz@ssa.gov or statistics@ssa.gov.

Table 2.F11 Number of SSA Appeals Council cases, fiscal years 2018–2021
Cases	2018	2019	2020	2021
Beginning-of-year pending	94,471	91,400	119,185	57,327
Receipts	152,888	171,978	129,876	111,722
Dispositions	155,959	144,193	191,734	118,415
End-of-year pending	91,400	119,185	57,327	50,634
SOURCES: Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings Operations. Actual data from the Appeals Review Processing System (ARPS) Management Information.
CONTACT: Joseph Deluca at joseph.deluca@ssa.gov or statistics@ssa.gov.

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