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Social Security Administration (SSA) Almanac Data for
Disability Reconsideration Boilerplate Processing Time
(excludes technical denials)

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

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Groundwork

Nosotros process inability claims for benefits through 2 programs: the Social Security inability insurance programme and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. An application for inability benefits tin exist filed online, in the local Social Security office, or by phone. We review the awarding to make sure some basic requirements for disability benefits are met. In some instances, including where the non-inability requirements are not met, the claim may be turned downwards every bit a technical deprival and a medical determination is not made.

If the requirements are met, we send the disability application to the Inability Determination Services (DDS) part in the state in which the applicant resides. Using federal laws, regulations, and Bureau policies and procedures, the country agency completes the disability decision for Social Security. In add-on, the Social Security Administration (SSA) reviews a sample of initial disability claims prior to a final determination. In one case these actions are completed, payment is made for allowances or notices are issued for denials.

When nosotros make determination on your claim, we volition send you a letter of the alphabet explaining our decision. If you do not concord with our decision, you can entreatment it. The first level of appeal is afterthought. A reconsideration is a complete review of your merits by someone who didn't take part in the first conclusion. That person will look at all the testify used to brand the original decision, plus any new show.

If you're appealing a decision about your medical condition, your reconsideration will exist handled by a procedure we call instance review. In this kind of reconsideration, we look at your case without coming together with yous. Merely you have the correct to come across what's in your file before we look at your case. You lot can also requite us more information about your instance.

The data contained in these datasets show the overall cumulative number of elapsed days (including processing time for transit, medical determinations, and quality review) from the date of filing through the appointment payment is made or the denial detect 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 about SSA'south disability programs, go to: Benefits for People with Disabilities

For more data about the reconsideration process, get to: The Appeals Process.

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

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

To learn more well-nigh SSI technical denials, go to: SSI technical denials

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Dataset Description

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

The average processing time is the total number of days to process all afterthought disability claims requiring a medical determination divided by the total number of reconsideration inability claims requiring a medical conclusion that we process during a particular fiscal year.

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Data Collection Description

Nosotros electronically collect elapsed fourth dimension in days for every disability reconsideration case processed. We currently use our business intelligence capabilities to present the data that is in our data stores.

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Data Dictionary

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

Average Processing Fourth dimension (days): The boilerplate processing (elapsed) time in days for afterthought disability claims, including combined initial Championship Ii inability and Title XVI bullheaded/disabled determinations, excluding technical denials, for the FY.

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