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Q2 FY2025 · SSA Public

Market opportunity · MA

Strong market

Massachusetts.

Roughly 37,428 new disability claims are filed in Massachusetts each year. At a 20% retention rate and a conservative $6,900 fee per retained case, the addressable fee pool is approximately $52M annually.

Annual DDS intake

37,428

Initial claims / year

DDS approval

40.2%

Nat'l: 39.8%

Avg office wait

381 days

Nat'l hearing: 365 days

Fee pool (est.)

$52M

Annualized · retention × cap

01 · Bench

Top 5 ALJs by approval rate.

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

ALJOfficeApprovalDecisions
Baird, Jonathan PLAWRENCE MA71.5%284
Pinkus, JoshuaSPRINGFIELD MA66.7%129
Ramsey, WilliamBOSTON66.2%71
Bauer, Edward TSPRINGFIELD MA64.5%290
Ross, William TBOSTON64.0%239

02 · Offices

Hearing-office timing.

Fastest

  • BOSTON350 days
  • LAWRENCE MA395 days
  • SPRINGFIELD MA398 days

Slowest

  • SPRINGFIELD MA398 days
  • LAWRENCE MA395 days
  • BOSTON350 days

30-day pilot · no contract

Route 20 inbound inquiries through claimpros.ai.

Send 20 new inbound inquiries in Massachusettsthrough 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.