I know that is often true but don't get too wrapped up in that. I was approved in 13 weeks and while I was my county's first mental illness approval that fast a new program has made it a lot faster for a lot of people.

I thought there was no way I'd be approved so quickly (because I had no evidence anyone ever was for mental illness and my state was very, very slow and years behind on appeals at the time; it was so bad they had judges from other states doing appeals via skype) and had made myself adjust to this negative view that I was going to be on food stamps and medicaid (which I never even got onto because it took so long for the application to process) for years and instead it was just weeks.

So I guess I'm saying prepare for it to be a while but don't be certain it will be since it isn't always. I don't know that there is any good indicator of who gets the fast approvals; apparently it is done via computer that looks at the documentation and uses some algorithm that says "this person will 100% not be denied, don't bother reviewing". But it still seems somewhat random who gets that kind of approval.