I think your DDS analyst's main goal is to get your claim off of her pending list, making a decision that is justifiable by the evidence. She has no personal stake in whether the decision is an approval or denial. Still gets paid the same amount of money for her job. DDS has a timeliness goal so stalling is really counterproductive and contrary to the way they do business. However, your case is only one of many that she has to work on.

Thanks again Janke. Does anyone else have a guess regarding my original post? I realize it would just be an opinion. Thanks!

I had been calling the National SSA # every day since they told me a decision had been made but was selected for quality review. I was hoping someone would "slip up" and tell me something. Well today I decided to call the local office today and after I gave the rep my info she was searching for quite a while and then said "hold please" and came back and told me I was approved on 6/1/11 and I should heard something in 3-4 weeks! Now I have read this board enough to know that the decision is not "etched in stone" and the Quality Review can overturn it and also that people have gotten incorrect info from SSA reps, so I wont do a happy dance until I see it on paper but it looks promising. Will update again when I hear something else.

The review may be checking to see if you have paid in enough quarters to be eligible for SSDI, otherwise it reverts to SSI. Hope this helps.