I was looking at my statistics of cases we handled last year and it appears to me that SSDI claims may be getting slower.  I remember many years ago when I was a young attorney and first started doing Social Security disability cases, and they took two and sometimes three years to go from requesting an SSDI hearing to getting a decision from the judge.  Then things got better and we were going from requesting a hearing to decision in sometimes less than a year.  I fear we are going back to a time when it will take much longer to get a decision.  I am just speaking from my gut right now but I will start to research the numbers to see if my intuition is correct.  Lets hope I am wrong.  In the mean time good luck with your SSDI claims and e-mail or call me if you have any questions or need help.