How long is the wait for a disability hearing?Here is some interesting information on how long it may take from the time a disability hearing is requested until an actual disability hearing has been held. So, for those who are interested in how long it may take to actually get your disability hearing scheduled, this may prove illuminating. Unfortunately, it is just as true today as it was in the mid 2000s that a request for a Social Security hearing can easily take over a year, and sometimes can take approximately two years. This can make the total claim processing time for disability benefits approximately three years from start to finish. How to interpret this information: the city and state is for the hearing office location. So, to know how your particulary case might be affected by disability hearing wait times, you need to find out which hearing office has juridiction for your case. For instance, in the state of North Carolina, there are several hearing offices: Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte, and Fayetteville. Secondly, the number to the right of the city and state location for each hearing office is the number in months of how long it took to get a hearing scheduled. As SSA states, it is "A presentation of the average time (in months) from the hearing request date until a hearing was held for cases closed in the Office of Hearings Operations' hearing offices or national hearing centers. This information can be fairly useful for letting claimants get a rough idea of wait times for estimating how long they may have to wait for an SSD or SSI hearing to be held. 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