Mobile Social Security Hearing Office: Wait Times & Approval Rates

If your Social Security disability hearing is assigned to the Mobile Office of Hearings Operations, there’s good news: Mobile is one of the most favorable and faster-moving hearing offices in the country. Below are the latest figures for the Mobile, Alabama OHO — and what they mean for your claim.

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Mobile hearing office at a glance (FY2025)

• Approval rate: about 72.3% favorable (national ~58.3%); ~67.8% fully favorable.
• Average wait to hearing (request → hearing held): ~6 months (national ~8 months).
• Total time, hearing request → decision: ~239 days (~8 months) — this includes the wait above; the written decision usually issues within a month or two after the hearing.
• Administrative law judges: 11. Cases pending: 2,084.
• Individual judge approval range: ~57.6% to 92.8% (rotational).

Sources: approval rates — SSA OHO ALJ disposition data (FY2025); wait & processing times — SSA OHO workload / processing-time reports (processing time = average days from hearing request to final decision).

What these numbers mean for your hearing

Mobile approves a notably higher share of cases than the national average — about 72.3% versus ~58.3%. Encouraging, but not a guarantee: your outcome still depends on the strength of your medical evidence and how well your inability to work is presented.

From the day you request a hearing, Mobile averages about 239 days (~8 months) to a final decision — and most of that is simply the ~6-month wait for the hearing itself, since the decision usually issues within a month or two afterward. That request-to-decision time runs shorter than the national norm. The overall journey is longer once you add the application and reconsideration stages before the hearing request, so file promptly and preserve every appeal deadline.

The judge you draw matters — and you can’t choose. Approval rates ranged ~57.6% to 92.8%; assignments are rotational. Preparation is the variable you control.

How to give yourself the best chance

Hearings are won on preparation: a complete medical record, treating-provider opinions on your limitations, testimony tying your conditions to an inability to sustain full-time work, and effective cross-examination of the vocational expert. Represented claimants succeed more often.

How Carmichael Law Group helps

We represent claimants before the Mobile office and throughout Region 04 — developing the record, preparing testimony, and handling the vocational and legal arguments. Contingency fee: no fee unless we win; first consultation free.