In Maryland, nearly seventy percent of the disability claims received by the SSA will be denied during the initial stage of the application process. This means that about two-thirds of the applicants who apply for disability benefits in Maryland will need to pursue the lengthy and complicated disability appeal process in order to obtain the benefits they may be rightfully entitled to. The majority of applicants must undergo a disability hearing before an administrative law judge in order to obtain the disability benefits they need. In the State of Maryland, it can take an applicant well over a year to be scheduled for a disability hearing.
The SSA's Office of Disability Adjudication Review (ODAR) is the agency responsible for scheduling disability hearings before an administrative law judge. The area of Maryland that you live in determines which ODAR office handles your particular disability case and how long you will have to wait for your hearing to be scheduled. The ODAR offices that handle the hearings for Maryland Social Security Disability applicants are as follows:
Baltimore, MD ODAR
The Symphony Center, Room 300
1010 Park Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21201-5600
Telephone: (866) 613-3960
Fax: (410) 962-6999
It takes this office an average of 452 days to schedule a disability hearing. The ODAR office located in Baltimore, Maryland is responsible for scheduling the disability hearings for the field offices in:
- Abingdon, MD
- Annapolis, MD
- Baltimore (Downtown), MD
- Baltimore (Glen Burnie), MD
- Baltimore (North), MD
- Baltimore (Northeast), MD
- Baltimore (Reisterstown), MD
- Baltimore (Rossville), MD
- Baltimore (West), MD
- Columbia, MD
- Owings Mills, MD
- Towson, MD
- Westminster, MD
Dover, DE ODAR
500 W. Loockerman Street, Suite 200
Dover, DE 19904
Telephone: (302) 674-7000
Fax: (302) 674-7024
It takes the Dover office an average of 352 days to schedule a disability hearing. The ODAR office located in Dover, Delaware handles the disability hearings for the Maryland Social Security field offices in:
- Elkton, MD
- Cambridge, MD
- Salisbury, MD
Washington D.C. ODAR
1227 25th Street N.W.
3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20037
Telephone: (202) 254-0601
Fax: (202) 254-0634
It takes this office an average of 330 days to schedule a disability hearing and schedules the disability hearings for the MD field offices in:
- Brightseat, MD
- Camp Springs, MD
- Greenbelt, MD
- Rockville, MD
- Silver Spring, MD
