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Q2 FY2025 · SSA Public

Market opportunity · PA

Strong market

Pennsylvania.

Roughly 82,548 new disability claims are filed in Pennsylvania each year. At a 20% retention rate and a conservative $6,900 fee per retained case, the addressable fee pool is approximately $114M annually.

Annual DDS intake

82,548

Initial claims / year

DDS approval

38.0%

Nat'l: 39.8%

Avg office wait

290 days

Nat'l hearing: 365 days

Fee pool (est.)

$114M

Annualized · retention × cap

01 · Bench

Top 5 ALJs by approval rate.

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

ALJOfficeApprovalDecisions
Grovich, Christopher PSEVEN FIELDS77.1%441
Preston, SusanMORGANTOWN75.5%110
Kooser, JohnSEVEN FIELDS74.9%475
Wood, Brian WSEVEN FIELDS73.5%392
Tenenbaum, MelissaSEVEN FIELDS73.4%259

02 · Offices

Hearing-office timing.

Fastest

  • SEVEN FIELDS255 days
  • JOHNSTOWN262 days
  • WILKES BARRE283 days

Slowest

  • PITTSBURGH319 days
  • PHILADELPHIA313 days
  • PHILADELPHIA EAST312 days

30-day pilot · no contract

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Send 20 new inbound inquiries in Pennsylvaniathrough 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.