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[quote=Anonymous]The SSA quota became worse this year at the hearing offices. A few years ago, it was 75 to 80 percent DWPI, but it was increased to 95 DWPI last year. However, you still had time to improve and increase your productivity over many months under the old union contract in 2019, so 95 percent DWPI was not as dire in terms of firing. The new union contract made firings easier at SSA without long performance improvement plans and chances to increase your DWPI in 2020.

You have 3.94 hours for a favorable, 10.5 hours for an unfavorable, and 12 hours for a partially favorable. You’re probably looking at writing 20 to 30 decisions a month. This is fine, especially for an experienced writer. I was at 100 DWPI my first year and increased to 120 DWPI by my second year…but you must stay focused and worry about getting a “bad” case. For example, a case with three remands from federal court, thirty opinions, three thousand pages of medical, etc….and you have the same 10.5 hours for it. If that case takes you two days to do, it can really put you behind on DWPI and if you get several like it in a month…..Ouch.

Luckily, they added a downtime tracker this year. Last year, let’s say your computer crashed and it took a day to fix it. That’s bad for your DWPI as you are not writing but it was considered “baked in” and you dealt with it.  This year, you can have downtime taken out of your DWPI, so there is a little less fear of a computer crash ruining your DWPI. 
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