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The massive waitlist at the Social Security Administration leaves many without care

Posted on Jun 27, 2008

The Social Security Administration is tremendously backlogged, with about 750,000 cases waiting for a hearing, according to figures from the agency’s website. The agency cites the average wait time for a hearing with an administrative law judge — which you reach after being denied benefits twice and appealing — as 512 days. Their track record, according to their own statistics, is to initially deny about two out of every three claims filed. This is not altogether different from a modern American medical insurance company.

The agency is aware of the problems with backlogged cases. In 2007, the SSA announced it was hiring 175 additional administrative law judges. But in February, the agency announced a moderate pullback: It would offer positions to 144 new judges.