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  "reviewed_utc": "2026-10-29T04:21:16.483362+00:00",
  "status": "Monthly state DDS staffing + processing time panel not verified in public sources reviewed",
  "files": [
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      "title": "Total State DDS Employees by State FY2010 to FY2023.xlsx",
      "official_url": "https://www.ssa.gov/foia/resources/proactivedisclosure/2025/Total%20State%20DDS%20Employees%20by%20State%20FY2010%20to%20FY2023.xlsx",
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      "capture": "Official SSA reading-room link via browser download"
    },
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      "title": "Monthly SSDI Processing Times for FY2019 - 09-30-24.xlsx",
      "official_url": "https://www.ssa.gov/foia/resources/proactivedisclosure/2025/Monthly%20SSDI%20Processing%20Times%20for%20FY2019%20-%2009-30-24.xlsx",
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    },
    {
      "title": "Initial and Reconsideration Processing Times Data as of 02-24-23.xlsx",
      "official_url": "https://www.ssa.gov/foia/resources/proactivedisclosure/2023/Initial%20and%20Reconsideration%20Processing%20Times%20Data%20as%20of%2002-24-23.xlsx",
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  ],
  "annual_staff": {
    "fiscal_years": [
      2010,
      2023
    ],
    "unit_labels": [
      "CT",
      "ME",
      "MA",
      "NH",
      "RI",
      "VT",
      "NJ",
      "NY",
      "PR",
      "DE",
      "DC",
      "MD",
      "PA",
      "VA",
      "WV",
      "VA EST",
      "AL",
      "FL",
      "GA",
      "KY",
      "MS",
      "NC",
      "SC",
      "TN",
      "IL",
      "IN",
      "MI",
      "MN",
      "OH",
      "WI",
      "AR",
      "LA",
      "NM",
      "OK",
      "TX",
      "AR EST",
      "OK EST",
      "IA",
      "KS",
      "MO",
      "NE",
      "CO",
      "MT",
      "ND",
      "SD",
      "UT",
      "WY",
      "AZ",
      "CA",
      "HI",
      "NV",
      "AK",
      "ID",
      "OR",
      "WA"
    ],
    "unit_count": 55,
    "rows": 770,
    "numeric_cells": 770,
    "blanks_preserved": 0,
    "source_grand_totals_exact": true,
    "frequency": "annual; no monthly staff records or monthly dates",
    "aggregation_rule": "Source state/DDS rows and extended teams retained separately; source regional and grand totals excluded from the unit CSV to prevent double counting; published grand totals independently reconciled."
  },
  "national_monthly_processing": {
    "observations": 69,
    "first_report_date": "2018-10-26",
    "last_report_date": "2024-06-28",
    "geography": "No state column; national ALL/Awards/Denials series",
    "filename_mismatch": "Filename contains09-30-24 but the final populated observation is2024-06-28; no later values inferred.",
    "scope": "SSDI as titled; workbook alone does not establish DDS-only handling time or combined SSDI/SSI population."
  },
  "state_processing_snapshot": {
    "source_sheets": [
      "Initial PT",
      "Recon PT"
    ],
    "numeric_rows": 134,
    "as_of": "2023-02-24",
    "standalone_monthly_period_verified": false
  },
  "compatibility_rules": [
    "Never interpolate annual DDS staff into monthly observations.",
    "Never substitute OPM federal SSA employees for state DDS staff.",
    "Keep DDS-only handling time separate from end-to-end claim processing time.",
    "Do not use year-to-date or as-of averages as standalone month observations without definitions.",
    "Use paid workyears or productive workyears scoped to the same workload for productivity; selected headcount is not a workyear denominator.",
    "Join on confirmed processing-unit codes and actual SSA period boundaries; do not infer claimant geography or historic EST code crosswalks.",
    "Missing monthly values stay missing; no proxy staffing-productivity correlation is published."
  ],
  "primary_definition_sources": [
    {
      "title": "SSA FY2023 Q3 Agency Priority Goal plan, printed page16",
      "url": "https://assets.performance.gov/APG/files/2023/september/FY2023_September_SSA_Progress_Improve_Initial_Disability_Claims_.pdf",
      "finding": "MI Central provides end-to-end processing time; DIODS provides staffing/workload for direct PPWY; SAWS attributes staffing time across workloads."
    },
    {
      "title": "OIG performance-indicator audit A-02-06-16110, historical report",
      "url": "https://oig-html.ssa.gov/audits/full/html/A-02-06-16110.html",
      "finding": "Describes FD-15 DDS Staffing and Workload Analysis and cumulative month-end PPWY. Historical documentation is a lead to the current successor report, not a current released monthly panel."
    },
    {
      "title": "SSA combined processing-time open dataset",
      "url": "https://www.ssa.gov/data/Combined-Disability-Processing-Time.html",
      "finding": "National monthly end-to-end initial claims processing excluding technical denials, separate from DDS-only time and state-level staff."
    },
    {
      "title": "Mississippi PEER report721, November18 2025",
      "url": "https://www.peer.ms.gov/sites/default/files/peer_publications/Rpt721_Final.pdf",
      "finding": "State audit has annual/partial-fiscal-year measures and a May7 2025 filled-position snapshot; not a monthly staff-and-time panel."
    }
  ],
  "outreach_status": "No request sent; draft only"
}