The denial rate at application in Ga is 75% and at reconsideration the denial rate is 89%.
Addresses for GA hearing offices and how long it takes.
Here you will find the addresses of the ODAR offices for GA, also called the hearing offices and formerly OHA.
Below each address you will find the local Social Security offices they serve and below that you will find the processing
times for that ODAR. The wait times in Atlanta are staggering. According to the 2006 statistics Atlanta ODAR offices have
the longest processing time in the country and almost twice the national average. See bottom of page for update
on wait times.
SSA, Office
of Disability Adjudication and Review
Atlanta Federal Center, Suite 2-M-15
60 Forsyth Street, S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Telephone:
(404) 562-5570
Fax:
(404) 562-0989
Services
the following Social Security Field Offices:
GEORGIA:
Atlanta Downtown, Atlanta Northeast, Atlanta Northwest, Atlanta Southeast, Atlanta Southwest, Carrollton, Columbus,
Decatur, East Point, Griffin, La Grange
Average processing time in days: 900 days
SSA, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review
3105
Clairmont Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30329
Telephone:
(404) 325-3256
Fax:
(404) 325-7856
Services the following
Social Security Field Offices:
GEORGIA:
Athens,
Augusta, Covington, Gainesville, Marietta, Toccoa, Gwinnett, Winder
Average processing time: 973 days
SSA, Office of Disability Adjudication and Review
484 Mulberry Street
Suite 500
Macon, Georgia 31201-7929
Telephone:
(478) 752-3415
Fax:
(478)
752-3448
Services the following Social Security Field Offices:
GEORGIA:
Albany, Cordele,
Macon, Milledgeville, Moultrie, Tifton, Warner Robins
Average processing time: 481 days.
Update: As of June 27, 2008 the wait time from when you request a hearing until you get a decision
is 557 days in Macon, 762 days in Atlanta and 823 days in Atlanta North. But help appears to be on the way and actually
already in progress. Social Security’s first National Hearing Center (NHC), located in Falls Church, Virginia,
opened in December 2007 and has already started to help with the huge number of backlogged cases in Atlanta, GA. This
NHC conducts hearing by video conference. As can be seen by the statistics, the opening of this new office has already
begun to improve wait times in Atlanta. I have also recently learned that there is plans to open a new hearing office
in Atlanta South, GA. I do not know when this new office will be open but my hope is that it will enable Social Security to
schedule more hearings in Georgia and particularly in the Atlanta area where the wait for a Social Security Disability hearing
is the longest in the country at the present time.
