Download or read book A Proposal to Restructure the Social Security Administration s Disability Determination Process written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Proposal to Restructure the Social Security Administration s Disability Determination Process written by U. S. Committee on Ways and Means and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Proposal to Restructure the Social Security Administration's Disability Determination Process: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, April 14, 1994 As you know, Mr. Chairman, in October 1993 I testified before this Subcommittee for the first time as Commissioner of Social Security. I told you that my goal is to provide not just good service but world - class service to the millions of people who look to ssa for help. I described our plans to reengineer some of our business processes that are based in large part on procedures begun 40 years ago. By reengineering, we mean viewing each process as a whole, from start to finish. We will focus on the customer's needs, and redesign the process to eliminate fragmentation and duplication within the organization. The goal of reengineering is to dramatically improve efficiency, rather than just make small, incremental improvements in pieces of the process. Because of the enormous challenges facing the disability program in the form of unprecedented workloads, we determined that our first reengineering effort would address the disability determination process. Workload statistics which showed higher backlogs and claimants experiencing longer processing times clearly indicated a process in need of a radical redesign. We challenged a special team of talented ssa and State disability determination services (dds) employees with a wide range of experience and expertise in the disability process to fundamentally rethink the way we process claims for disability benefits. We asked, How would we do this better if we were starting from scratch? I am extremely proud of how effectively the Disability Process Reengineering Team has responded to this challenge. Over the past 6 months, the Team conducted interviews across the Nation with more than front-line Federal and State workers and with more than 700 representatives from the medical and legal communities, disability advocates, congressional staffs, and other groups. Today, I am very pleased to tell you about the proposal that the Team submitted to me and the Reengineering Executive Steering Committee (ssa senior managers, union officials, and presidents of professional organizations in ssa and the ddss) at the end of last month. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Proposal to Restructure the Social Security Administration s Disability Determination Process Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security of written by United States Congress House Committe and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Social Security Administration s Disability Decision Process written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-06-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commissioner of Social Security s Proposed Improvements to the Disability Determination Process written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security s Improved Disability Determination Process written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Social Security Disability Decision Process written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process has been working since it first met in January 2005 to develop recommendations to the Social Security Administration (SSA) on how to improve the medical aspects of its disability determination process. By law, Social Security can only pay benefits to those unable to engage in substantial gainful activity because of a "medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months (emphasis added)." Medical and psychological expertise is critical both in developing the criteria for measuring the severity and functional impact of an impairment or impairments on an applicant's ability to work and in applying the criteria to individual cases where the medical evidence does not clearly meet the criteria in the eyes of a nonmedical disability examiner.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Disability written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-08-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminating in the Americans With Disabilities Act. Disability is now understood as a dynamic process, and Social Security must comprehend that process to plan adequately for the times ahead. The Dynamics of Disability provides expert analysis and recommendations in key areas: Understanding the current social, economic, and physical environmental factors in determining eligibility for disability benefits. Developing and implementing a monitoring system to measure and track trends in work disability. Improving the process for making decisions on disability claims. Building Social Security's capacity for conducting needed research. This book provides a wealth of detail on the workings of the Social Security disability program, recent and emerging disability trends, issues and previous experience in researching disability, and more. It will be of primary interest to federal policy makers, the Congress, and researchersâ€"and it will be useful to state disability officials, medical and rehabilitation professionals, and the disability community.
Download or read book Improving the Social Security Disability Decision Process written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits to disabled persons of less than full retirement age and to their dependents. SSA also provides Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments to disabled persons who are under age 65. For both programs, disability is defined as a "medically determinable physical or mental impairment" that prevents an individual from engaging in any substantial gainful activity and is expected to last at least 12 months or result in death. Assuming that an applicant meets the nonmedical requirements for eligibility (e.g., quarters of covered employment for SSDI; income and asset limits for SSI), the file is sent to the Disability Determination Services (DDS) agency operated by the state in which he or she lives for a determination of medical eligibility. SSA reimburses the states for the full costs of the DDSs. The DDSs apply a sequential decision process specified by SSA to make an initial decision whether a claim should be allowed or denied. If the claim is denied, the decision can be appealed through several levels of administrative and judicial review. On average, the DDSs allow 37 percent of the claims they adjudicate through the five-step process. A third of those denied decide to appeal, and three-quarters of the appeals result in allowances. Nearly 30 percent of the allowances made each year are made during the appeals process after an initial denial. In 2003, the Commissioner of Social Security announced her intent to develop a "new approach" to disability determination. In late 2004, SSA asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to help in two areas related to its initiatives to improve the disability decision process: 1) Improvements in the criteria for determining the severity of impairments, and 2) Improvements in the use of medical expertise in the disability decision process. This interim report provides preliminary recommendations addressing the three tasks that relate to medical expertise issues, with a special focus on the appropriate qualifications of medical and psychological experts involved in disability decision making. After further information gathering and analyses of the effectiveness of the disability decision process in identifying those who qualify for benefits and those who do not, the committee may refine its recommendations concerning medical and psychological expertise in the final report. The final report will address a number of issues with potential implications for the qualifications of the medical experts involved in the disability decision process.
Download or read book A Structural Model of Social Security s Disability Determination Process written by Jianting Hu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security Administration Disability Determination and Appeals Process written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second in a Series on Social Security Disability Programs Challenges and Opportunities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How SSA s Disability Programs Can be Improved written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of recommendations -- Making the disability determination process more consistent and equitable -- Making the application process faster, more accessible, and more understandable for individuals seeking help -- Strengthening the public's trust in the integrity of the programs -- Helping disabled individuals continue or return to work -- Providing a better understanding of the dynamics of program changes.
Download or read book Managing the Social Security Disability Insurance Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security Administration Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security Administration written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2006, the Social Security Administration (SSA) published a rule that fundamentally alters the way claims for disability benefits are processed and considered. The rule establishes the Disability Service Improvement process (DSI)-intended to improve the accuracy, timeliness, consistency, and fairness of determinations. DSI's changes include an opportunity for an expedited decision during the initial determination process and the elimination of the Appeals Council, which had given claimants the right to appeal administrative law judge (ALJ) decisions before pursuing federal court review. DSI replaces the council with a Decision Review Board, which will selectively review ALJ decisions. However, dissatisfied claimants whose cases are not selected for board review must now appeal directly to the federal courts. Based on its ongoing work, GAO was asked to testify on (1) public and stakeholder concerns about the elimination of the Appeals Council and its replacement by the Decision Review Board and SSA's response to these concerns, as well as (2) the steps that SSA has taken to help facilitate a smooth implementation of the DSI process
Download or read book Improving the Social Security Disability Decision Process written by Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process: SSA's Listing of Impairments and Agency Access to Medical Expertise and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process has been working since it first met in January 2005 to develop recommendations to the Social Security Administration (SSA) on how to improve the medical aspects of its disability determination process. By law, Social Security can only pay benefits to those unable to engage in substantial gainful activity because of a "medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months (emphasis added)." Medical and psychological expertise is critical both in developing the criteria for measuring the severity and functional impact of an impairment or impairments on an applicant's ability to work and in applying the criteria to individual cases where the medical evidence does not clearly meet the criteria in the eyes of a nonmedical disability examiner.
