If you're disabled, there's a thing called Social Security Disability Insurance and you can get payments from the government to help to care for yourself if you can't work.

But what if it took seven months to just get your case adjudicated?

Hi, I'm Scott out with Steve Green and Bill Whittle.

And gentlemen, on this right angle, I'd like to talk about this federal program that's

administrated at the state level that is now so backlog.

Let me just give you a sense of this, state by state.

This is how many days it takes to process an application for the social security disability benefit.

This doesn't mean that it's going to be favorably processed or adjudicated.

This just means this is how long it takes to process it.

In the state of Texas, 214 days.

In the state of Florida, 225 days, these are some of the better ones.

In the state of Wisconsin, 227 days, Georgia, 246, Delaware, 261, South Carolina,

249. It has gone from an average of three months now to an average of seven months before you get

the initial ruling from the agency on whether or not you qualify for disability payments and two out of three claimants are denied on the first attempt.

The backup is caused in part, it's always been slow, but the backup is caused by a variety of factors.

During the pandemic, a lot of these offices shut down and they were incapable of taking

computers home and working remotely. And so you would think, oh, well, this is going to cause a

problem. Well, actually, the number of people applying for disability benefits dropped pretty

precipitously during the pandemic because they couldn't get into the offices

to apply for it. Nevertheless, those agencies fell further and further behind. It's a federal

program, but it's administered at the state level and typically by relatively low paid people.

And the pay is dependent on where you are. For example, if it's in Puerto Rico, the average

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