{"@context":{"@language":"en","@vocab":"https://schema.org/","arrayShape":"cr:arrayShape","citeAs":"cr:citeAs","column":"cr:column","conformsTo":"dct:conformsTo","containedIn":"cr:containedIn","cr":"http://mlcommons.org/croissant/","rai":"http://mlcommons.org/croissant/RAI/","data":{"@id":"cr:data","@type":"@json"},"dataType":{"@id":"cr:dataType","@type":"@vocab"},"dct":"http://purl.org/dc/terms/","description":{"@container":"@language"},"equivalentProperty":"cr:equivalentProperty","examples":{"@id":"cr:examples","@type":"@json"},"extract":"cr:extract","field":"cr:field","fileProperty":"cr:fileProperty","fileObject":"cr:fileObject","fileSet":"cr:fileSet","format":"cr:format","includes":"cr:includes","isArray":"cr:isArray","isLiveDataset":"cr:isLiveDataset","jsonPath":"cr:jsonPath","key":"cr:key","md5":"cr:md5","name":{"@container":"@language"},"parentField":"cr:parentField","path":"cr:path","recordSet":"cr:recordSet","references":"cr:references","regex":"cr:regex","repeated":"cr:repeated","replace":"cr:replace","samplingRate":"cr:samplingRate","sc":"https://schema.org/","separator":"cr:separator","source":"cr:source","subField":"cr:subField","transform":"cr:transform"},"@type":"sc:Dataset","conformsTo":"http://mlcommons.org/croissant/1.1","name":"Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office","description":"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.","url":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/disability-hearings/","identifier":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23741884","sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23741884","https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23741883","https://zenodo.org/records/23741884"],"version":"1.0.0","datePublished":"2026-10-28","dateModified":"2026-10-28","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","creator":{"@type":"sc:Organization","name":"Probative Growth","url":"https://probativegrowth.com"},"publisher":{"@type":"sc:Organization","name":"Probative Growth","url":"https://probativegrowth.com"},"citeAs":"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","keywords":["SSDI hearing wait times","Social Security disability hearing backlog","hearing office processing time","disability lawyer marketing","Office of Hearings Operations","SSI hearings"],"inLanguage":"en","isAccessibleForFree":true,"isLiveDataset":false,"temporalCoverage":"2025-09-27/2026-08-31","spatialCoverage":{"@type":"sc:Place","name":"United States"},"distribution":[{"@type":"cr:FileObject","@id":"disability-hearings.csv","name":"disability-hearings.csv","description":"Every record, one row each (RFC 4180, UTF-8). Columns are described in README.txt.","contentUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/disability-hearings/disability-hearings.csv","contentSize":"168386 B","encodingFormat":"text/csv","sha256":"66364913c464e273dcbf3e2e669e00cae9aa83a20f45d4c58de59ca041875206"},{"@type":"cr:FileObject","@id":"disability-hearings.json","name":"disability-hearings.json","description":"Every record with its full sources, under a meta envelope (credit line, DOI, license).","contentUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/disability-hearings/disability-hearings.json","contentSize":"328108 B","encodingFormat":"application/json","sha256":"906102139b1c41d71926aac99370441fde5fb38a8b2bbe8fba110786cdbbf16f"}],"recordSet":[{"@type":"cr:RecordSet","@id":"disability-hearings","name":"disability-hearings","description":"The records of Social Security disability hearing waits and workloads by hearing office, one per CSV row.","key":{"@id":"disability-hearings/id"},"field":[{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/id","name":"id","description":"Stable record id (never reused)","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"id"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/jurisdiction","name":"jurisdiction","description":"Two-letter state code of the office (ours, from its name); US for the national Special Review Cadre","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"jurisdiction"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/jurisdictionName","name":"jurisdictionName","description":"Jurisdiction name","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"jurisdictionName"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/office","name":"office","description":"SSA's site code for the hearing office","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"office"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/officeName","name":"officeName","description":"The office's city or name as we print it","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"officeName"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/ssaName","name":"ssaName","description":"The office name exactly as SSA prints it","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"ssaName"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/region","name":"region","description":"SSA region number","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"region"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/waitMonths","name":"waitMonths","description":"Average months from the hearing request to the hearing, for cases closed in the month","dataType":"sc:Float","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"waitMonths"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/aptDays","name":"aptDays","description":"Average calendar days from the hearing request to the disposition, fiscal year to date","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"aptDays"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/aptRank","name":"aptRank","description":"SSA's rank of the office by average processing time (1 is fastest; ties share a rank)","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"aptRank"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/aptOf","name":"aptOf","description":"How many offices SSA ranked","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"aptOf"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/receipts","name":"receipts","description":"Cases received in the fiscal year to date (negative when more cases were transferred out than came in)","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"receipts"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/dispositions","name":"dispositions","description":"Cases disposed of in the fiscal year to date","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"dispositions"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/pending","name":"pending","description":"Cases pending at the end of the period","dataType":"sc:Integer","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"pending"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/month","name":"month","description":"The month of the wait-time report (YYYY-MM)","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"month"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/fyThrough","name":"fyThrough","description":"The last day of the fiscal-year-to-date period","dataType":"sc:Date","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"fyThrough"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/status","name":"status","description":"P primary source, S secondary source, D default (no specific rule found), U open question or withheld","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"status"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/text","name":"text","description":"The record in one plain-English sentence","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"text"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/lastChecked","name":"lastChecked","description":"The day it was last confirmed (YYYY-MM-DD)","dataType":"sc:Date","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"lastChecked"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/note","name":"note","description":"Caveats","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"note"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/sourceLabels","name":"sourceLabels","description":"Sources, separated by \" | \"","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"sourceLabels"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/sourceUrls","name":"sourceUrls","description":"Source URLs, in the same order","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"sourceUrls"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/confidence","name":"confidence","description":"high, medium or low: computed from status, a second check, age against the refresh cadence and sampling error (rule: /data/#confidence)","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"confidence"}}},{"@type":"cr:Field","@id":"disability-hearings/confidenceBasis","name":"confidenceBasis","description":"The reasons for the confidence level, in a short phrase","dataType":"sc:Text","source":{"fileObject":{"@id":"disability-hearings.csv"},"extract":{"column":"confidenceBasis"}}}]}]}