For the first time in 10 years, the Office of Disability Adjudication & Review (ODAR) has ended its fiscal year with fewer pending hearings than in the previous year.
According to an SSA press release, ODAR has improved the average processing time to less than 500 days (down from 514 in FY2008)...part of the, "largest expansion in decades of its capacity to hear disability appeals."
The expansion is also moving forward in early FY2010, SSA reports, with plans to hire an additional 226 administrative law judges and corresponding support staff.
For more information, visit http://www.ssa.gov/.
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