| Eliminating the hearings backlog remains SSA's highest priority. Since announcing our plan to eliminate the backlog of hearing requests and prevent its recurrence (in May 2007) we have made tremendous progress. In FY 2009, we reduced the pending level nine consecutive months and ended the year with nearly 38,000 fewer pending dispositions. We also virtually eliminated all of our oldest cases and reduced the average time it takes to process a request for hearing.
Our successes in FY 2009 are the result of the hard work of our employees, as well as additional funding from Congress that allowed us to hire staff and beginning the process of opening additional offices.
Embedded behind each State in the map below are booklets containing information on some of the major areas we tracked and monitored throughout FY 2009. The booklet also provides significant highlights for each State. For States where there is no hearing office, you will be directed to the State providing primary service for that area.
We have provided a Section 508 compliant text version of these files for persons with disabilities.
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Note: For
American Samoa, Guam, and the Philippines see Hawaii. For
the U.S. Virgin Islands see Puerto
Rico. 
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