cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898096. Source: Probative, Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office, version 1.0.1, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898096, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "1.0.1"
date-released: 2026-11-02
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23898096
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/disability-hearings/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "How long Social Security disability claimants wait for a hearing before an administrative law judge, office by office, from the Social Security Administration's own public data files: the average months from the hearing request to the hearing for cases closed in the month, and each hearing office's fiscal-year-to-date receipts, dispositions, cases pending and average days from request to decision, with SSA's rank among 159 offices. Each record is one hearing office, with the state it sits in. Counts and averages only: no judge, claimant, lawyer or firm is named."
keywords:
  - "SSDI hearing wait times"
  - "Social Security disability hearing backlog"
  - "hearing office processing time"
  - "disability lawyer marketing"
  - "Office of Hearings Operations"
  - "SSI hearings"