Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

Most recent quarterly backlog

End of FY2026 Q2 (Jan 1 – Mar 31, 2026)

Latest annual report

End of FY2025 (Sept 30, 2025)

16-year change

-82%

FY2010 → FY2025 (Oct 1, 2009 – Sept 30, 2025)

Annual backlog, FY2010–FY2025

Pending requests at end of each fiscal year (Oct 1, 2009 – Sept 30, 2025). Federal fiscal year runs Oct 1 – Sept 30, named for the year it ends.

FY10: 375

FY12: 146

FY14: 86

FY16: 81

FY18: 89

FY20: 175

FY22: 73

FY24: 72

FY25: 68

Dashed verticals mark presidential inaugurations.

A note on the figures. Annual and quarterly numbers don’t mean the same thing.

Annual report

Window: full fiscal year, Oct 1 through Sept 30.
Coverage: intended for every reporting agency; the current FY2025 bulk release contains 117 agency-overall reports.
Detail: received, processed, pending, exemption counts (b1–b9), ten oldest, personnel, costs.
“Pending” means: every request still open at year-end, regardless of age.
Freshness: six to nine months after fiscal year end. Latest published is FY2025.

Quarterly report

Window: three months. The latest quarter is shown in the sitewide freshness banner.
Coverage: larger agencies only. About 95 filed before the Trump 2 reporting cliff. DHS filed through FY2025 Q3, then stopped.
Detail: received, processed, backlogged. Three numbers only.
“Backlogged” means:perfected requests open more than 20 working days. Stricter than annual “pending.”
Freshness: usually about six weeks after quarter end.

Why we keep them on separate views.The two “pending” counts use different denominators, so plotting them on a single continuous timeline would misrepresent the underlying change. Within each series, comparisons are clean — quarter-over-quarter, year-over-year. Across series, only the direction of change is comparable, not the magnitude.

Recent quarterly activity

Last 22 quarters of received, processed, and backlog. Most recent: FY2026 Q2 (Jan 1 – Mar 31, 2026).

Backlog

Received per quarter

1,102

Processed per quarter

1,007

10 oldest pending requests, end of FY2025 (Sept 30, 2025)

Agencies report days pending in working days, counted from the day the request was received; the years column converts to calendar years. The longer this list runs, the more litigation-ripe the agency’s backlog.

Rank	Date received	Working days pending	Years pending
#1	2025-03-18	136	0.5
#2	2025-09-09	15	0.1
#3	2025-09-09	15	0.1
#4	2025-09-10	14	0.1
#5	2025-09-10	14	0.1
#6	2025-09-10	14	0.1
#7	2025-09-11	13	0.1
#8	2025-09-12	12	0.0
#9	2025-09-12	12	0.0
#10	2025-09-15	11	0.0

Exemption invocations, FY2025 (Oct 1, 2024 – Sept 30, 2025)

How often each FOIA exemption (b1–b9) was invoked when redacting or denying records. Exemption 5 (deliberative process, attorney-client) is highlighted — it’s the most-fought exemption in FOIA litigation.

FOIA staffing, FY2025 (Oct 1, 2024 – Sept 30, 2025)

Full-time employees

Equivalent FTE

0.0

Total FTE

14.0

Annual report history

FY	Received	Processed	Pending end
FY2025	2,767	2,771	68
FY2024	2,733	2,773	72
FY2023	2,682	2,643	112
FY2022	3,727	3,877	73
FY2021	3,517	3,481	225
FY2020	3,495	3,525	175
FY2019	2,348	2,232	205
FY2018	1,618	1,598	89
FY2017	1,639	1,651	69
FY2016	3,713	3,779	81
FY2015	2,278	2,217	147
FY2014	2,094	2,083	86
FY2013	5,721	5,786	79
FY2012	5,314	5,475	146
FY2011	7,291	7,364	307
FY2010	5,834	5,611	375

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