New Bill May Help Fight Disability Fraud
On February 26, 2014, the House Committee on Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee convened to discuss ways of preventing Social Security disability fraud. The hearing included several panels featuring a variety of witnesses from the Social Security Administration (SSA), the Unum Group, and the National Academy of Public Administration, among others, who testified to the problem of disability fraud and spoke about current and in-development fraud prevention efforts by the SSA. The centerpiece of the hearing, however, was Ranking Committee Member Xavier Becerra’s (D-CA) H.R. 4090, “The Social Security Fraud and Error Prevention Act of 2014.” The bill is… Learn More