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Q2 FY2025 · SSA Public

Market opportunity · WI

Prime market

Wisconsin.

Roughly 30,120 new disability claims are filed in Wisconsin each year. At a 20% retention rate and a conservative $6,900 fee per retained case, the addressable fee pool is approximately $42M annually.

Annual DDS intake

30,120

Initial claims / year

DDS approval

41.2%

Nat'l: 39.8%

Avg office wait

286 days

Nat'l hearing: 365 days

Fee pool (est.)

$42M

Annualized · retention × cap

01 · Bench

Top 5 ALJs by approval rate.

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

ALJOfficeApprovalDecisions
Jacobson, Joseph DMADISON76.7%412
Pyrtel, AhavahaMADISON72.3%411
Schaefer, MichaelMADISON70.2%258
Parker, GuilaMADISON65.2%224
Balter, Michael NAKRON OH60.5%395

02 · Offices

Hearing-office timing.

Fastest

  • MILWAUKEE283 days
  • MADISON289 days

Slowest

  • MADISON289 days
  • MILWAUKEE283 days

30-day pilot · no contract

Route 20 inbound inquiries through claimpros.ai.

Send 20 new inbound inquiries in Wisconsinthrough 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.