Talking about the timeline, until end of August, for MOST of applicants, SS was taking 4-6 months lately, then something happened (what? perhaps God will tell us afterlife). Now since than, we hear sporadic SS completion cases, like once or twice a month, exceeding 8 months and exceeding their service standard (120+120 days for extended one) - oops I forgot every case is different, eh! and its not even new, as in past few cases (different ) took more than a year. Like me many other folks touching 10 months mark being in SS. So yeah! Don't mush the mind in estimating either in time or timeline. As all predictive analytics doesn't apply to lottery system.