disability attorney to find out your odds of immediate success based on the nature of disability. If rejected at first, then the 1st appeal has a very high rate of rejection because it's a clerical rubber stamp, but that one can come quickly. It's the 2nd appeal that can take time, the one that leads to a judicial hearing. I went to one of those with the son of a friend. He was destitute and I paid his attorney fee. He ended up getting disabilty (bipolar mostly) after having been thrown off it.
Not sure where you can find the info but an attorney would know, the percentage success rate, and length of wait, where your hearing would be. It can take a year or more to get a hearing.
I guess my point was mostly that I'd expect things not to change from where they have been for decades really. The wait didn't get quicker under Obama to my knowledge. And I suspect with the economy the way it is, they will be flooded with more applications.
Very sorry this is an issue for you 
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