{
  "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"
  }
}