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Q2 FY2025 · SSA Public

Market opportunity · KS

Prime market

Kansas.

Roughly 16,944 new disability claims are filed in Kansas each year. At a 20% retention rate and a conservative $6,900 fee per retained case, the addressable fee pool is approximately $23M annually.

Annual DDS intake

16,944

Initial claims / year

DDS approval

44.8%

Nat'l: 39.8%

Avg office wait

258 days

Nat'l hearing: 365 days

Fee pool (est.)

$23M

Annualized · retention × cap

01 · Bench

Top 5 ALJs by approval rate.

Judges currently on the bench in Kansas hearing offices, sorted by favorable decision rate. Use these to prioritize which office a case is assigned to, where permissible.

ALJOfficeApprovalDecisions
Page, DavidWICHITA78.8%358
Hardy, PearlineTOPEKA KS55.8%156
Brookins, Alison KWICHITA50.0%24
Leary, Mary JSPRINGFIELD MO45.3%53
Tran, Lauren K.TOPEKA KS43.3%261

02 · Offices

Hearing-office timing.

Fastest

  • TOPEKA KS230 days
  • WICHITA286 days

Slowest

  • WICHITA286 days
  • TOPEKA KS230 days

30-day pilot · no contract

Route 20 inbound inquiries through claimpros.ai.

Send 20 new inbound inquiries in Kansasthrough the claimpros.ai inbound-triage agent for 30 days. Measured against the firm's baseline: time-to-first-response, consult show rate, and retained-case quality. No contract, no long commitment — just numbers.

Methodology · Figures reflect SSA public data through the latest release. Fee pool estimates annualize DDS intake at a conservative 20% retention rate with a 75% cap hit on retained backpay — not a performance guarantee. Approval rates describe historical decisions, not likelihoods on individual cases.