Tracking SOAR outcomes is a critical way to document successes and to target technical assistance needs.  Using the SOAR Online Application Tracking (OAT) program, case workers can easily enter application outcome data and generate reports to use for local sustainability efforts. Report structure changed in July 2021 when North Carolina began using OAT. 

Since SOAR was implemented in North Carolina in 2008, over 4,000 SOAR applications have been completed. Of these, nearly 3,000 were approved, making North Carolina's cumulative approval rating for SSI/SSDI approximately 75%.


SOAR National also collects and reports on national outcomes each fiscal year (July 1-June 30). Since 2020, North Carolina has been a "Top Ten" SOAR state. SOAR National's “Top Ten” criteria requires that states have at least 300 cumulative decisions, approval rates at or above the national average each year, and at least 24 decisions each year (2 per month). In 2022, the average cumulative approval rate for the "Top Ten" states was 81 percent!

Reports are cumulative and are based on Outcome Reports received since January 1, 2008. Old reports stopped being updated in July 2021 when North Carolina began using the SOAR National outcome database known as OAT. Counties that have submitted cases in OAT have an additional report displayed. 

Alamance view report
Beaufort view report
Bladen view report
Brevard view report
Brunswick view report
Buncombe view report OAT report
Burke view report OAT report
Cabarrus view report
Caldwell view report
Carteret view report
Catawba view report OAT report
Chatham view report
Cleveland view report
Craven  view report
Cumberland view report OAT report
Davidson view report
Durham view report OAT report
Edgecombe view report
Forsyth view report
Gaston view report OAT report
Granville view report
Guilford view report OAT report
Haywood view report
Henderson view report
Iredell view report
Jackson view report
Lenoir view report
Macon view report
Martin view report
McDowell view report
Mecklenburg view report OAT report
Nash view report
New Hanover view report OAT report
Onslow view report
Orange view report OAT report
Pasquotank view report
Pender view report
Person view report
Pitt view report
Polk view report
Robeson view report
Rockingham view report
Rowan view report
Rutherford view report
Sampson view report
Stanly view report
Surry view report
Transylvania view report
Union view report
Vance view report
Wake view report OAT report
Watauga view report
Wayne view report
Wilkes view report

 

SOAR offers the Online Application Tracking (OAT) program free of charge. Using OAT will help you:

  • Keep track of all SOAR-assisted applications in one, easy-to-use system.
  • Record decisions on initial applications, reconsiderations, and ALJ hearings.
  • Summarize outcomes in reports for use in sustainability efforts.

All data is located on a secure server and no personally identifiable information is collected. It takes 5 minutes or less to enter information on each application and the program is free to use! 

Have you completed a SOAR disability application or are you in the process of doing so? Let us know!

  • If you are SOAR trained and need to register for OAT, click here 
  • If you are already registered, submit your outcomes here

If you have any questions about OAT, contact soaroat@prainc.com.