Wyoming Social Security disability
Wyoming Disability Lawyers: No Hearing Office in the State, and the Claims Go Two Different Ways
Wyoming has no Social Security hearing office of its own. Its six field offices divide between two other states: Cody and Sheridan are decided in Billings, Montana, and Casper, Cheyenne, Riverton and Rock Springs are decided in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A state without an office is not unusual. A state divided between two of them is, and it means the first question here is not how far away the office is but which direction your file went. The answer turns on the field office serving your address and on nothing you can influence.
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Social Security hearing offices located in Wyoming
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States whose offices decide Wyoming claims
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Wyoming field offices, four routed west and two routed north
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Where your case is decided
Which Hearing Office Decides Your Wyoming Disability Claim?
Wyoming is split, so the state has no single answer to give.
One of two, and which one depends on where you live. Cody and Sheridan in the north answer to Billings, in Montana. Casper, Cheyenne, Riverton and Rock Springs answer to Salt Lake City, in Utah.
Wyoming has no hearing office of its own. Vermont, which also has none, sends everything to a single neighbor, which is the simpler arrangement. Wyoming is split, so the state has no single answer to give.
Neither assignment is something a claimant or a representative chooses. It follows the Social Security field office serving your address, and if you are not certain which office that is, it is answerable in a few minutes.
The assignment nobody predicts
Why Cheyenne Disability Claims Are Heard in Utah and Not Colorado
Because these areas were drawn around the field office map rather than around the road map. Cheyenne sits roughly a hundred miles from Denver, which has a hearing office of its own, and roughly four hundred from Salt Lake City, which is where the hearing office locator assigns it.
Worth naming the reaction before the explanation: that looks like a mistake and it is not one. The hearing office locator assigns the Cheyenne field office to Salt Lake City, whatever the driving distance.
The practical consequence is small in an era of remote hearings and worth knowing anyway. The office holding your file is in Utah, its calendar is the one that governs your case, and the wait figure to look up is that office's own.
What the state agency does
The Wyoming Medical Decision on a Disability Claim
Only the hearing stage leaves, and only because there is no office in Wyoming to hold it.
The medical review is done by the state disability determination agency. Social Security takes the application and settles the non-medical questions, then sends the file to Wyoming's disability determination agency for the medical review before taking it back.
So the initial medical decision is made by the state disability determination agency, under federal rules, before anything crosses a state line. Only the hearing stage leaves, and only because there is no office in Wyoming to hold it.
We can tell you which office an address routes to and what that office's published wait is. What nobody can tell you from the outside is how a particular file will read once it gets there, which is the part worth spending effort on rather than on the geography.
The two offices
Every Hearing Office That Decides Wyoming Disability Claims
Service area lines name Social Security field offices rather than cities or counties, which is how the assignment is actually made.
Wyoming has no Social Security hearing office of its own. Claims filed here are decided by Billings and Salt Lake City, both in another state.
Every field office assignment and office address is on our hearing office routing page.
Average wait times change from month to month. Social Security publishes the average wait time for each hearing office and updates it monthly, so check the office that takes your claim.
Places we serve in Wyoming
Wyoming Places We Serve
We represent claimants across Wyoming, and the hearing office for any address is on the routing page.
Your lawyer does not need a Wyoming license to represent you on a Social Security claim. Social Security's rule asks for an attorney in good standing who has the right to practice law before a court of a state, the District of Columbia, a U.S. territory or island possession, or a federal court, who is not disqualified or suspended from representing claimants, and whom no law prohibits from acting as a representative. How an out-of-state disability lawyer works.
Wyoming SSDI Questions: Out-of-State Hearings and the Medical Decision
Why is my Wyoming claim decided in another state?
Because there is no hearing office here. Its field offices are divided between hearing offices in Montana and Utah. Vermont, which also has no hearing office, sends everything to a single neighbor.
I live in Cheyenne. Why is my office in Utah rather than Colorado?
It surprises everybody and the answer is that these areas were not drawn around driving distance. Cheyenne is roughly a hundred miles from Denver, which has a hearing office, and roughly four hundred from Salt Lake City, which is the office the hearing office locator assigns it to. The line follows the field office map rather than the road map, and it is not a preference you enter on a form, though a claimant can ask Social Security to change the place of a hearing and it decides that on good cause, under 20 CFR 404.936(f) and (g).
How do I know whether my file went north or west?
By the field office serving your address. Cody and Sheridan answer to Billings; Casper, Cheyenne, Riverton and Rock Springs answer to Salt Lake City. If you are not sure which field office serves you, that is answerable in a few minutes from an address, and it is the first thing we check on a call.
Does the office that gets my file change my odds?
Not the standard applied to it. The definition of disability and the five-step sequence are set by federal regulation and are the same in Billings, Salt Lake City and everywhere else. What differs between offices is the calendar, because each runs its own queue, and Social Security publishes the current average wait for every one of them.
If I move within Wyoming, can my case change offices?
It can. The two halves of the state answer to different hearing offices, and after a move the hearing office's chief judge reviews a transfer for a claimant who objected to audio or agency video, now lives in another office's area, and faces a trip of more than 75 miles to a hearing site. A file can shift from Utah to Montana without leaving Wyoming. Tell Social Security about any move promptly. An address it does not have can send a notice astray.
Is the medical review on a Wyoming claim done in Wyoming?
Yes, and that part does not leave the state. Social Security takes the application and settles the non-medical questions, then sends the file to Wyoming's disability determination agency for the medical decision before taking it back. Only the hearing stage goes elsewhere, and only because there is no office here to hold it.
North or west? We can tell you in a few minutes.
Free case review, no obligation. We respond within 3 business hours. Tell us where you filed and we will tell you which office your address routes to. We work from Lebanon, Tennessee, with consultations by phone or video. There is no Wyoming office and none is implied.