{
  "metadata": {
    "title": "DDS staffing and service, FY2019–2024",
    "source_title": "Staffing, Productivity, and Processing Times at State Disability Determination Services",
    "report": "072309",
    "publication_date": "2025-07-18",
    "source_url": "https://oig.ssa.gov/~assets/uploads/072309.pdf",
    "retrieved_utc": "2026-10-28T23:52:03.999240+00:00",
    "source_sha256": "701c0ad6f0f6d401cf239f02196c6591b66be4fd995e4720f87eb1bff28ffc8c",
    "national_tables": "Tables 1–2, printed page 3 (PDF page 8); Table 3, printed page 4 (PDF page 9)",
    "state_tables": "Tables A–1 through A–4, printed pages A-1–A-4 (PDF pages 15–18)",
    "national_period": "Federal fiscal years 2019–2024; FY2024 provided for informational purposes, outside audit period",
    "state_period": "FY2019–2023, source-published five-year averages; 50 states and DC; Puerto Rico not in these appendix tables",
    "processing_scope": "National processing times include field-office nonmedical development before DDS referral (report footnote 12); not DDS-only handling time. Appendix A–4 is labeled DDS processing time and is kept separate.",
    "staff_scope": "Selected DDS positions, not total DDS headcount, workyears, or federal SSA employment. No OPM data joined.",
    "state_attrition_caution": "Montana Table A–1 is 62.8%, while narrative page 5 says 44.8%; dashboard preserves appendix value and flags discrepancy, without choosing a reconciled estimate.",
    "analysis_status": "Descriptive annual associations; no causal or staffing-cost estimate. Annual observations are few and not independent.",
    "fields": {
      "fy": "Federal fiscal year",
      "processing_days": "Source-reported average processing time, days",
      "received": "Initial disability claims received during year",
      "cleared": "Initial disability determinations cleared during year",
      "pending": "Source-reported pending initial determinations, stock",
      "ppwy": "Source-reported production per workyear; not recomputed from selected headcounts",
      "experienced_examiners": "Experienced DDS examiners; selected role headcount",
      "medical_consultants": "DDS medical consultants; selected role headcount",
      "hearing_officers": "DDS hearing officers; selected role headcount, not federal ALJs",
      "staff_attrition_pct": "Source-reported full-time DDS total staff attrition rate, percent",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": "Source-reported full-time DDS examiner attrition rate, percent; state values are five-year averages",
      "trainee_pct": "Source-published average trainee share of full-time examiners, percent, FY2019–2023",
      "period_status": "Audit period, or informational extension for FY2024"
    }
  },
  "national": [
    {
      "fy": 2019,
      "processing_days": 121,
      "received": 2280118,
      "cleared": 2249994,
      "pending": 572663,
      "ppwy": 302.8,
      "experienced_examiners": 6266,
      "medical_consultants": 2370,
      "hearing_officers": 415,
      "staff_attrition_pct": 11,
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 15,
      "period_status": "Audit period"
    },
    {
      "fy": 2020,
      "processing_days": 132,
      "received": 2130534,
      "cleared": 1979377,
      "pending": 719069,
      "ppwy": 255.2,
      "experienced_examiners": 6183,
      "medical_consultants": 2237,
      "hearing_officers": 362,
      "staff_attrition_pct": 10,
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 13,
      "period_status": "Audit period"
    },
    {
      "fy": 2021,
      "processing_days": 166,
      "received": 1917703,
      "cleared": 1922034,
      "pending": 693660,
      "ppwy": 238.6,
      "experienced_examiners": 5981,
      "medical_consultants": 2137,
      "hearing_officers": 333,
      "staff_attrition_pct": 14,
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20,
      "period_status": "Audit period"
    },
    {
      "fy": 2022,
      "processing_days": 184,
      "received": 2070029,
      "cleared": 1802758,
      "pending": 903408,
      "ppwy": 229.8,
      "experienced_examiners": 5804,
      "medical_consultants": 2028,
      "hearing_officers": 317,
      "staff_attrition_pct": 18,
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 25,
      "period_status": "Audit period"
    },
    {
      "fy": 2023,
      "processing_days": 219,
      "received": 2162203,
      "cleared": 1916375,
      "pending": 1124929,
      "ppwy": 240.2,
      "experienced_examiners": 5594,
      "medical_consultants": 2071,
      "hearing_officers": 293,
      "staff_attrition_pct": 14,
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20,
      "period_status": "Audit period"
    },
    {
      "fy": 2024,
      "processing_days": 238,
      "received": 2294578,
      "cleared": 2206150,
      "pending": 1175970,
      "ppwy": 245.7,
      "experienced_examiners": 6072,
      "medical_consultants": 1994,
      "hearing_officers": 281,
      "staff_attrition_pct": 11,
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 16,
      "period_status": "Informational extension"
    }
  ],
  "states": [
    {
      "state": "Alabama",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 13.3,
      "trainee_pct": 19.2,
      "ppwy": 200.2,
      "processing_days": 172.1
    },
    {
      "state": "Alaska",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 27.2,
      "trainee_pct": 19.6,
      "ppwy": 141.8,
      "processing_days": 216.5
    },
    {
      "state": "Arizona",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 13.3,
      "trainee_pct": 17.1,
      "ppwy": 247.8,
      "processing_days": 167.4
    },
    {
      "state": "Arkansas",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 16.0,
      "trainee_pct": 18.6,
      "ppwy": 216.2,
      "processing_days": 161.0
    },
    {
      "state": "California",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 13.4,
      "trainee_pct": 10.3,
      "ppwy": 260.1,
      "processing_days": 137.4
    },
    {
      "state": "Colorado",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 18.0,
      "trainee_pct": 16.7,
      "ppwy": 230.7,
      "processing_days": 178.3
    },
    {
      "state": "Connecticut",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 9.1,
      "trainee_pct": 9.1,
      "ppwy": 286.4,
      "processing_days": 148.7
    },
    {
      "state": "Delaware",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 25.3,
      "trainee_pct": 35.9,
      "ppwy": 210.6,
      "processing_days": 211.7
    },
    {
      "state": "District of Columbia",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 15.6,
      "trainee_pct": 0.0,
      "ppwy": 320.4,
      "processing_days": 181.3
    },
    {
      "state": "Florida",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 32.7,
      "trainee_pct": 14.6,
      "ppwy": 293.8,
      "processing_days": 190.1
    },
    {
      "state": "Georgia",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 28.6,
      "trainee_pct": 16.7,
      "ppwy": 269.1,
      "processing_days": 206.5
    },
    {
      "state": "Hawaii",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20.0,
      "trainee_pct": 15.8,
      "ppwy": 208.5,
      "processing_days": 148.6
    },
    {
      "state": "Idaho",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20.5,
      "trainee_pct": 39.6,
      "ppwy": 290.9,
      "processing_days": 143.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Illinois",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 24.7,
      "trainee_pct": 18.3,
      "ppwy": 317.7,
      "processing_days": 189.8
    },
    {
      "state": "Indiana",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 13.2,
      "trainee_pct": 14.6,
      "ppwy": 334.3,
      "processing_days": 139.7
    },
    {
      "state": "Iowa",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 7.9,
      "trainee_pct": 12.9,
      "ppwy": 211.6,
      "processing_days": 130.1
    },
    {
      "state": "Kansas",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 48.5,
      "trainee_pct": 35.2,
      "ppwy": 329.1,
      "processing_days": 170.5
    },
    {
      "state": "Kentucky",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 21.7,
      "trainee_pct": 12.8,
      "ppwy": 235.9,
      "processing_days": 148.3
    },
    {
      "state": "Louisiana",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 42.8,
      "trainee_pct": 34.6,
      "ppwy": 273.0,
      "processing_days": 175.9
    },
    {
      "state": "Maine",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 30.7,
      "trainee_pct": 27.5,
      "ppwy": 293.3,
      "processing_days": 147.5
    },
    {
      "state": "Maryland",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 22.7,
      "trainee_pct": 9.8,
      "ppwy": 227.8,
      "processing_days": 199.9
    },
    {
      "state": "Massachusetts",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 7.5,
      "trainee_pct": 8.1,
      "ppwy": 234.4,
      "processing_days": 178.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Michigan",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 10.8,
      "trainee_pct": 12.7,
      "ppwy": 206.5,
      "processing_days": 171.3
    },
    {
      "state": "Minnesota",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 19.4,
      "trainee_pct": 18.6,
      "ppwy": 261.5,
      "processing_days": 139.4
    },
    {
      "state": "Mississippi",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 24.0,
      "trainee_pct": 13.4,
      "ppwy": 246.6,
      "processing_days": 163.9
    },
    {
      "state": "Missouri",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 16.0,
      "trainee_pct": 15.4,
      "ppwy": 228.4,
      "processing_days": 134.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Montana",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 62.8,
      "trainee_pct": 53.8,
      "ppwy": 243.1,
      "processing_days": 189.4
    },
    {
      "state": "Nebraska",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 16.0,
      "trainee_pct": 14.2,
      "ppwy": 198.5,
      "processing_days": 169.3
    },
    {
      "state": "Nevada",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 35.2,
      "trainee_pct": 25.4,
      "ppwy": 191.7,
      "processing_days": 195.6
    },
    {
      "state": "New Hampshire",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 11.9,
      "trainee_pct": 7.7,
      "ppwy": 221.1,
      "processing_days": 172.1
    },
    {
      "state": "New Jersey",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 10.0,
      "trainee_pct": 14.0,
      "ppwy": 248.8,
      "processing_days": 136.8
    },
    {
      "state": "New Mexico",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 38.0,
      "trainee_pct": 40.6,
      "ppwy": 249.2,
      "processing_days": 196.1
    },
    {
      "state": "New York",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 14.2,
      "trainee_pct": 6.2,
      "ppwy": 238.3,
      "processing_days": 139.6
    },
    {
      "state": "North Carolina",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20.8,
      "trainee_pct": 20.2,
      "ppwy": 236.2,
      "processing_days": 180.3
    },
    {
      "state": "North Dakota",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 29.7,
      "trainee_pct": 23.8,
      "ppwy": 223.4,
      "processing_days": 138.8
    },
    {
      "state": "Ohio",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 14.5,
      "trainee_pct": 15.4,
      "ppwy": 280.8,
      "processing_days": 136.8
    },
    {
      "state": "Oklahoma",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 18.6,
      "trainee_pct": 9.8,
      "ppwy": 238.4,
      "processing_days": 146.3
    },
    {
      "state": "Oregon",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 14.4,
      "trainee_pct": 14.5,
      "ppwy": 242.0,
      "processing_days": 183.6
    },
    {
      "state": "Pennsylvania",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 7.3,
      "trainee_pct": 6.4,
      "ppwy": 263.5,
      "processing_days": 140.8
    },
    {
      "state": "Rhode Island",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 4.6,
      "trainee_pct": 7.5,
      "ppwy": 239.2,
      "processing_days": 124.6
    },
    {
      "state": "South Carolina",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20.0,
      "trainee_pct": 17.6,
      "ppwy": 238.1,
      "processing_days": 208.6
    },
    {
      "state": "South Dakota",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 15.9,
      "trainee_pct": 22.6,
      "ppwy": 246.9,
      "processing_days": 148.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Tennessee",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 25.9,
      "trainee_pct": 25.1,
      "ppwy": 245.5,
      "processing_days": 208.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Texas",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 27.0,
      "trainee_pct": 17.5,
      "ppwy": 378.4,
      "processing_days": 175.6
    },
    {
      "state": "Utah",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 14.9,
      "trainee_pct": 24.3,
      "ppwy": 236.6,
      "processing_days": 173.6
    },
    {
      "state": "Vermont",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 4.6,
      "trainee_pct": 2.4,
      "ppwy": 177.2,
      "processing_days": 125.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Virginia",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 20.6,
      "trainee_pct": 20.4,
      "ppwy": 265.9,
      "processing_days": 172.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Washington",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 12.2,
      "trainee_pct": 8.9,
      "ppwy": 199.5,
      "processing_days": 173.6
    },
    {
      "state": "West Virginia",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 12.5,
      "trainee_pct": 14.9,
      "ppwy": 189.3,
      "processing_days": 172.2
    },
    {
      "state": "Wisconsin",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 24.5,
      "trainee_pct": 16.6,
      "ppwy": 255.2,
      "processing_days": 186.6
    },
    {
      "state": "Wyoming",
      "examiner_attrition_pct": 27.9,
      "trainee_pct": 35.2,
      "ppwy": 267.2,
      "processing_days": 156.3
    }
  ]
}