The following link is a listing of hearings completion data by name of individual administrative law judges (ALJ) for all ALJs in the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR). The data includes hearing office name, total dispositions, decisions, allowances, denials and fully favorable or partially favorable decisions.

The listing provides historical data regarding how many disability appeal cases are awarded or denied for a given ALJ.

Here is a link to the SSI Annual Statistical Report, 2009. The report provides a wealth of statistical information on SSI.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ssi_asr/index.html/

Highlights :

Size and Scope of the Supplemental Security Income Program

* About 7.7 million people received federally administered payments in December 2009.
* The average monthly payment in December 2009 was $499.
* Total payments for the year were more than $46 billion, including almost $4 billion in federally administered state supplementation.

Profile of Recipients

Here is a link to the "Annual Statistical Report on the Social Security Disability Insurance Program, 2009". This report provides a wealth of statistical information on the Social Security Disability program.

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/di_asr/2009/index.html

Highlights

Size and Scope of the Social Security Disability Program

* Disability benefits were paid to over 8.9 million people.
* Awards to disabled workers (970,696) accounted for over 89 percent of awards to all disabled beneficiaries (1,081,983).

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides for a one-time payment of $250 to Social Security and Supplemental Security Income, or (SSI) beneficiaries, as well as those who receive Railroad Retirement and Veterans benefits.

Here are answers to questions about this payment.

Q. Who will receive a one-time economic recovery payment from Social Security?

This outlines an article which outlines how to rescind an earlier decision to take lower Social Security retirement benefits. By rescinding your decision to take early benefits, you can increase your retirement benefits -- but only after you pay back all your previous retirement benefits!

Note that we cover this same concept in this video.

Here's an article which indicates that a single man should take retirement benefits early (age 62).

A married man should still take retirement benefits early; however, his spouse should take her retirement benefits later.

This is in contrast to a video we have which suggests that a wife should take retirement benefits before her husband.