Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office

Version 1.0.0. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23741884

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Source: Probative, Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23741884, licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Probative. (2026). Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23741884

Not legal advice. These are the Social Security Administration's published hearing-office statistics, kept for marketing planning. An average wait describes cases already closed, not how long any claimant will wait. Check SSA's current reports.
Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.

Human page: https://probativegrowth.com/data/disability-hearings/

Columns:
  id: Stable record id (never reused)
  jurisdiction: Two-letter state code of the office (ours, from its name); US for the national Special Review Cadre
  jurisdictionName: Jurisdiction name
  office: SSA's site code for the hearing office
  officeName: The office's city or name as we print it
  ssaName: The office name exactly as SSA prints it
  region: SSA region number
  waitMonths: Average months from the hearing request to the hearing, for cases closed in the month
  aptDays: Average calendar days from the hearing request to the disposition, fiscal year to date
  aptRank: SSA's rank of the office by average processing time (1 is fastest; ties share a rank)
  aptOf: How many offices SSA ranked
  receipts: Cases received in the fiscal year to date (negative when more cases were transferred out than came in)
  dispositions: Cases disposed of in the fiscal year to date
  pending: Cases pending at the end of the period
  month: The month of the wait-time report (YYYY-MM)
  fyThrough: The last day of the fiscal-year-to-date period
  status: P primary source, S secondary source
  text: The record in one plain-English sentence
  lastChecked: The day it was last confirmed (YYYY-MM-DD)
  note: Caveats
  sourceLabels: Sources, separated by " | "
  sourceUrls: Source URLs, in the same order
  confidence: high, medium or low: computed from status, a second check, age against the refresh cadence and sampling error (rule: /data/#confidence)
  confidenceBasis: The reasons for the confidence level, in a short phrase