The hiring of more judges will not relieve the horrendous backlog of claims for Social Security Disability Insurance, advocates say |The Buffalo office, which serves Rochester, continues to have one of the longest delay times in the country - 691 days before a case goes to a judge. | Representative Louise Slaughter helped get $9.7 billion to hire as many as 133 new judges, including two for a new Rochester satellite office. Slaughter and Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton pressured the SSDI administration to hire the two Rochester judges. | But critics say the added judges will do little to speed things up. | "When you consider the number of judges who have left yearly, the additional judges only amount to a net gain of 12 nationwide," says Linda Fullerton, a local SSDI advocate. | The Rochester judges won't hear cases until sometime next year due to training, says Rick Warsinskey, former president of the National Council of Social Security Managers. | "We're really looking at 2012 to 2013 before the Buffalo-Rochester area gets any relief," he says. "Applicants will continue to lose everything, even get sick and die, before they receive benefits."