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Updated June 2026 · SSA Public

Hearing Office

LONG BEACH

Region 09Rank #75 of 160

Avg processing

256days

-8 vs national

Processing time

256

8.5 months

Hearing wait

8.0

months (current)

Cases pending

1,922

FY receipts

2,096

FY dispositions

1,331

Active judges

5

Video hearings

34%

of hearings held

Avg approval rate

56.2%

-1.6 vs avg

Backlog ratio

1.57

Growing

Rank

#75

of 160

Processing time in context

Fastest · 73 daysAvg · 264 daysSlowest · 673 days

The draw · approval spread across 5 judges

28%
75%
0%Median 58.0%100%

At LONG BEACH, approval rates range from 28.1% (Coburn, D.) to 74.6% (Yerkey, Marc) — a 46-pointspread. Assignment is effectively the luck of the draw, so the judge a case lands with can matter more than the office’s average. Plan for the median (58.0%), not the best case.

Judges at LONG BEACH (5)

JudgeApprovalDecisionsFavorableDeniedTrend
Yerkey, Marc74.6%17312944
Floyd, Cynthia72.8%24617967
Gallegos, Kimberly58.0%245142103
Marcee, Joseph T47.2%1808595
Coburn, D.28.1%21761156