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2010

Fraud Prevention Efforts in the Social Security Administration (SSA)

At the request of House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) the SSA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report on the agency’s efforts to detect and prevent fraud. The report is more or less a compilation of data from the OIG’s past reports on the same topics and covers all levels of the disability determination process. In the section on appeals, the report covers SSA oversight of Administrative Law Judges (ALJ), especially those with very high allowance rates. The report found that the SSA’s quality control efforts designed to root out these so-called… Learn More

Recent Congressional Hearings

This past June and July, Congress held a number of hearings related to the Social Security Administration (SSA). What follows is a brief rundown of each hearing: *On June 18, the Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on SSA field office (FO) closures and service cuts. Since 2010, the SSA has closed 64 FOs and 533 mobile offices due to budget shortages. The shortages have also resulted in a loss of 11,000 SSA employees. Committee Chairman Bill Nelson of Florida and ranking Minority Member Sen. Susan Collins of Maine were upset that the SSA took these measures with… Learn More

What does the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Division of Quality (DQ) Do?

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Division of Quality (DQ) has been around since 2010 and is dedicated to making the disability process smooth, fair, and consistent for all. The DQ serves a number of important functions. It regularly evaluates a statistically meaningful collection of favorable and un-appealed, hearing-level Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) decisions for quality control. It also conducts decision studies focused on specific issues, offices, or subjects involved in the hearing process (for example: ALJs, or doctors). The reviews yield valuable data that help the DQ determine the most problematic areas of SSA policy and law, which in turn… Learn More

A Change in Terminology

“Rosa’s Law,” which Congress passed in October of 2010, replaced the term “mental retardation” with “intellectual disability” in a number of federal laws. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has followed suit and made the same change in terminology in light of “Rosa’s Law,” even though Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act were not included in the law. The change in terminology was motivated by heightened standards of political correctness and in order to avoid possible ambiguities and misconceptions caused by the term “mental retardation.” The change became effective for the SSA as of September 3, 2013, and… Learn More

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