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Social Security Administration (SSA) Annual Data for
Inability Reconsideration Average Processing Time
(excludes technical denials)

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This dataset contains data for financial years 2014 onward and is currently available in the following formats:

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Groundwork

We process disability claims for benefits through 2 programs: the Social Security disability insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. An application for inability benefits can be filed online, in the local Social Security office, or by telephone. We review the awarding to brand certain some bones requirements for disability benefits are met. In some instances, including where the non-disability requirements are non met, the claim may be turned downward as a technical denial and a medical determination is non made.

If the requirements are met, we send the disability application to the Disability Determination Services (DDS) office in the state in which the applicant resides. Using federal laws, regulations, and Bureau policies and procedures, the state agency completes the inability decision for Social Security. In addition, the Social Security Assistants (SSA) reviews a sample of initial disability claims prior to a concluding determination. Once these deportment are completed, payment is made for allowances or notices are issued for denials.

When nosotros make conclusion on your claim, we will send you lot a letter of the alphabet explaining our decision. If you do not agree with our decision, you tin can appeal it. The starting time level of entreatment is reconsideration. A reconsideration is a complete review of your claim by someone who didn't take function in the offset decision. That person volition wait at all the evidence used to brand the original decision, plus any new evidence.

If you're highly-seasoned a conclusion about your medical condition, your reconsideration will exist handled by a procedure nosotros call case review. In this kind of reconsideration, we look at your example without meeting with you. But you have the correct to see what's in your file earlier nosotros await at your instance. Y'all can as well give us more data nigh your case.

The data contained in these datasets prove the overall cumulative number of elapsed days (including processing time for transit, medical determinations, and quality review) from the date of filing through the engagement payment is made or the deprival notice is issued for all reconsideration claims that require a medical determination for financial years 2014 and later.

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Agency Program Description

To learn more than virtually SSA's disability programs, go to: Benefits for People with Disabilities

For more data about the reconsideration procedure, go to: The Appeals Process.

For a description of the SSA Retirement Insurance Program, go to: Retirement Benefits

To learn more about SSA'southward disablity programme technical denials, go to: SSA's disablity program technical denials

To learn more than about SSI technical denials, get to: SSI technical denials

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Dataset Description

This dataset provides the overall cumulative number of elapsed days (including processing time for transit, medical determinations, and SSA quality review) from the date of filing through the date payment is fabricated or the denial notice is issued for all reconsideration claims that require a medical determination. The data includes annual processing time for fiscal years 2014 and later.

The average processing time is the full number of days to process all afterthought disability claims requiring a medical determination divided by the total number of afterthought disability claims requiring a medical determination that we process during a detail financial twelvemonth.

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Information Collection Clarification

We electronically collect elapsed time in days for every inability afterthought instance processed. Nosotros currently use our business intelligence capabilities to present the data that is in our data stores.

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Data Dictionary

Fiscal Year (FY): The 12-calendar month period from October 1st through September 30th.

Average Processing Time (days): The average processing (elapsed) time in days for reconsideration disability claims, including combined initial Title Ii disability and Title XVI blind/disabled determinations, excluding technical denials, for the FY.

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