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Make data-driven SSDI decisions.

Free tools built on public Social Security data. Estimate approval odds, scout the judge, office, and state deciding your Social Security disability (SSDI) claim, and weigh an appeal.

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Source: SSA public disposition data · Updated June 2026

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ALJ Stevens Bentley, Elizabeth 100% ▲ALJ Hemming, Norman 72% ▲ALJ Molleur, John 38% ▼ALJ Merchan, Sylke 81% ▲ALJ Bridges, Kathryn 53% ▼ALJ Stevens Bentley, Elizabeth 100% ▲ALJ Hemming, Norman 72% ▲ALJ Molleur, John 38% ▼ALJ Merchan, Sylke 81% ▲ALJ Bridges, Kathryn 53% ▼

judges indexed

987

database growth, 10 quarters

hearing offices tracked

165

coverage across 50 states

national approval rate

58%

FY2024 ALJ dispositions

historical data

15 yrs

FY2011 → FY2025

01 · Tools

Every SSDI tool, in one place.

Free research and decision tools for the whole SSDI journey — estimate odds, dig into the data behind a case, and work your caseload. No account required.

For claimants

Approval-Odds Estimator

Answer a few quick questions — your state, condition, age, and where your claim stands — and get an evidence-based estimate of your approval odds at each stage.

How to use · Pick your state and condition, set your stage, read your odds. Share the result or open the data behind it.

Start here →

Approval Odds by Condition

How often SSDI claims are approved for a specific medical condition — award share, stage-by-stage allowance rates, and how your state compares.

How to use · Open your condition, then drill into your state for a localized approval rate.

By condition & state →

Appeal-Decision Guide

Denied at a hearing? See how Appeals Council review stacks up against federal court — remand rates and the most common reasons cases get sent back.

How to use · Compare the two paths side by side to understand what a remand actually takes.

AC vs. federal court →

For attorneys & firms

Lead Scorer

Score and rank incoming SSDI claimant leads by approval likelihood and case value, so intake works the strongest cases first.

How to use · Upload your leads, run the score, export a ranked, prioritized list.

For firms →

Judge Lookup

Search 987 ALJs by name — approval rate, total dispositions, year-over-year trend, and where they sit against their hearing office.

How to use · Look up the judge before a hearing to calibrate expectations and strategy.

987 judges →

Hearing Office Lookup

Processing time, pending caseload, and favorable-disposition share for any hearing office, benchmarked against the rest of the network.

How to use · Pull the office handling a case to anticipate timelines and odds.

165 offices →

State Approval Rates

DDS approval rates for all 50 states with directional change and the hearing offices tied to each state.

How to use · Check a state's baseline rate to set realistic expectations early.

50 states →

Compare Judges

Put up to five ALJs side by side — approval rates, decision volumes, and trend direction in one row.

How to use · Drop in the names you're weighing and read the comparison at a glance.

Side-by-side →

Embeddable Estimator

Put the Approval-Odds Estimator on your own firm or resource site with one line of HTML — a free tool for your visitors, a backlink for you.

How to use · Copy the embed snippet and paste it into your page.

Copy & embed →

02 · Calculators

The math behind every SSDI case, instantly.

SGA Check

Compare monthly earnings against the current Substantial Gainful Activity threshold.

Date Last Insured

Estimate DLI from last-worked date and surface the runway left to establish disability onset.

Fee Estimator

Backpay, 25% attorney fee, and the $9,200 cap calculated at each stage of the case.

Appeal Deadline

Enter the denial date, get the 60-day window plus the mailing rule adjustment.

Grid Rules

Medical-Vocational Guidelines by age, education, and residual exertion level.

Compassionate Allowances

Check whether a condition qualifies for SSA's expedited CAL processing.

Methodology

Where the data comes from.

Every number on this site comes from datasets the Social Security Administration publishes openly: ALJ disposition reports, hearing office workload releases, and state agency statistics. The same files anyone could download from ssa.gov directly — we simply made them searchable and cross-referenced.

SSA releases updated judge and office data each fiscal quarter. Our parser ingests the new files within twenty-four hours, re-runs the trend calculations, and ships an updated build. Nothing is inferred or extrapolated; a missing figure is shown as missing.

The research stays free — no account, no login, no paid tier gating any ALJ, office, or state page. The calculators stay free. Claimants and the attorneys who represent them deserve data that reads like research — not a lead-capture funnel.

Source: SSA public disposition data · Updated June 2026

How firms use it

Built into the pre-hearing workflow.

The same public SSA data, pulled at the three moments where it changes a decision — no guesswork, no spreadsheet.

Calibrate before a hearing

Pull the assigned ALJ's approval rate and year-over-year trend — and line them up against the rest of the office — to set strategy and brief the client.

Judge Lookup

Work the intake pile in order

Score and rank incoming leads by approval likelihood and case value, so the strongest cases get attention first instead of whoever called last.

Lead Scorer

Set expectations on day one

Check the state's baseline approval rate and the hearing office's processing time before you sign — so timelines and odds are honest from the first call.

State & office data

Attorney testimonials land here once real firms are on record — not before.

Quarterly update

A short note when SSA publishes new numbers.

Four emails a year — just the data release and what changed. No newsletter, no drip sequence.

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