The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) compiles a yearly report on the attorney fees paid by federal agencies under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) to those who sue them or are sued by them when the court determines that the agency's actions were not "substantially justified."
The Fiscal Year 2019 report has come out. It shows that the Social Security Administration paid out a total of $45,842,213.45 in 8,223 cases, an average of $5,574.88 per case. To give a comparison, the agency that paid out the second most dollars was the Department of Commerce with $6,068,000.00 in just three cases. In terms of numbers, the Department of Homeland Security was second at 46 cases. Overall, Social Security accounted for 99% of the number of EAJA awards and 78% of the dollar amount of all EAJA awards.
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