Hearing Process Report Card Survey – Award - English
	
| Social Security is continually working to improve the service we provide the public. Please complete this questionnaire to give us your opinion of the service you received when you requested a hearing on your application for disability benefits. | ||||||||||
| MARKING INSTRUCTIONS Correct Marking Example:  | ||||||||||
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| Please use the scale shown to rate the following aspects of your hearing experience. Mark [X] ONE answer for every item. If a question does not apply to you, please mark Not Applicable. | ||||||||||
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				 | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor | Very Poor | Not Applicable | |||
| When you decided to request a hearing… | 
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| 1. Ease of finding information about how to file your hearing request |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 2. Quality of information you got from Social Security explaining the hearing process |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| While you were waiting for your hearing to be held… | 
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| 3. Ease of contacting Social Security about your hearing request |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 4. Helpfulness of the information Social Security gave you about your hearing request |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| How your hearing was held… | ||||||||||
| 5. Did you have a representative, either an attorney or some other person, handle your hearing? Mark only ONE answer. | ||||||||||
|  | Yes | |||||||||
|  | No | |||||||||
| 6. Did you have a hearing with a judge face-to-face or by video conference? Mark only ONE answer. | ||||||||||
|  | Hearing was face-to-face with a judge. Please continue with question 7 | |||||||||
|  | Hearing was by video conference with a judge.Please continue with question 7 | |||||||||
|  | No hearing was held with a judge. Please continue with question 14 | |||||||||
| Please use the scale shown to rate the following aspects of your hearing experience. Mark [X] ONE answer for every item. | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor | Very Poor | Not Applicable | |||
| When your hearing was held… | 
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| 7. Location of the office where your hearing was held |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 8. How well the judge explained what would happen at your hearing |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 9. How prepared the judge was to talk about the facts of your case |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 10. Opportunity the judge gave you or your representative to present the facts of your case |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 11. Courtesy of the judge |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| Waiting for the hearing and decision… | 
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| 12. Length of time from the date you first requested your hearing until it was held |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 13. Length of time from the date your hearing was held until you received the decision |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 14. Overall length of time from the date you first requested your hearing until you received the decision |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| Notice of Social Security’s decision on your hearing… | 
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| 15. How well the notice explained the decision on your hearing |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 16. How well the notice explained the amount of your benefits and when they would start |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| Your overall experience with Social Security… | 
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| 17. Helpfulness of the staff |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 18. Courtesy of the staff |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 19. How well the staff knew their jobs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 20. Overall experience with the hearing on your disability application |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 21. Overall opinion of Social Security’s service |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 22. Please use the space below to tell us anything else about the service you received in connection with your hearing. | ||||||||||
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| Social Security is continually working to improve the service we provide the public. Please complete this questionnaire to give us your opinion of the service you received when you requested a hearing on your application for disability benefits. | ||||||||||
| MARKING INSTRUCTIONS Correct Marking Example:  | ||||||||||
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| Please use the scale shown to rate the following aspects of your hearing experience. Mark [X] ONE answer for every item. If a question does not apply to you, please mark Not Applicable. | ||||||||||
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				 | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor | Very Poor | Not Applicable | |||
| When you decided to request a hearing… | 
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| 1. Ease of finding information about how to file your hearing request |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 2. Quality of information you got from Social Security explaining the hearing process |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| While you were waiting for your hearing to be held… | 
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| 3. Ease of contacting Social Security about your hearing request |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 4. Helpfulness of the information Social Security gave you about your hearing request |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| How your hearing was held… | ||||||||||
| 5. Did you have a representative, either an attorney or some other person, handle your hearing? Mark only ONE answer. | ||||||||||
|  | Yes | |||||||||
|  | No | |||||||||
| 6. Did you have a hearing with a judge face-to-face or by video conference? Mark only ONE answer. | ||||||||||
|  | Hearing was face-to-face with a judge. Please continue with question 7 | |||||||||
|  | Hearing was by video conference with a judge.Please continue with question 7 | |||||||||
|  | No hearing was held with a judge. Please continue with question 14 | |||||||||
| Please use the scale shown to rate the following aspects of your hearing experience. Mark [X] ONE answer for every item. | Excellent | Very Good | Good | Fair | Poor | Very Poor | Not Applicable | |||
| When your hearing was held… | 
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| 7. Location of the office where your hearing was held |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 8. How well the judge explained what would happen at your hearing |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 9. How prepared the judge was to talk about the facts of your case |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 10. Opportunity the judge gave you or your representative to present the facts of your case |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 11. Courtesy of the judge |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| Waiting for the hearing and decision… | 
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| 12. Length of time from the date you first requested your hearing until it was held |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 13. Length of time from the date your hearing was held until you received the decision |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 14. Overall length of time from the date you first requested your hearing until you received the decision |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| Notice of Social Security’s decision on your hearing… | 
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| 15. How well the notice explained the decision on your hearing |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 16. How well the notice explained what to do if you disagreed with the decision |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| Your overall experience with Social Security… | 
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| 17. Helpfulness of the staff |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 18. Courtesy of the staff |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 19. How well the staff knew their jobs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 20. Overall experience with the hearing on your disability application |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 21. Overall opinion of Social Security’s service |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||
| 22. Please use the space below to tell us anything else about the service you received in connection with your hearing. | ||||||||||
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| File Type | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document | 
| File Title | Disability Service Improvement – Post-Adjudicative Survey | 
| Author | dpse | 
| File Modified | 0000-00-00 | 
| File Created | 2021-02-02 |