Addressing the challenges facing SSA's disability programs.

The effect of welfare reform on SSA's disability programs: design of policy evaluation and early evidence.

During the past several years, the U.S. social safety net has gone through substantial changes involving an emphasis on personal responsibility and incentives, the shift of certain responsibilities to the states, and new limits on entitlements for benefits. Two pieces of recent legislation affected the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) disability programs. Section 105 of Public Law 104-1...

Modeling SSA's sequential disability determination process using matched SIPP data.

We model the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) disability determination process using household survey information exact matched to SSA administrative information on disability determinations. Survey information on health, activity limitations, demographic traits, and work are taken from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). We estimate a multistage sequential logit mode...

GAO-02-322 Social Security Disability: Disappointing Results from SSA's Efforts to Improve the Disability Claims Process Warrant Immediate Attention

Disability process redesign: the proposal from the SSA Disability Process Reengineering Team.

About a year ago, the Social Security Administration (SSA) began the Disability Process Reengineering Program. This agency-wide project is one way SSA is seeking to improve its overall service to its customers while enriching and improving the worklives of its employees. The Disability Process Reengineering Team's objective is to fundamentally rethink and redesign SSA's disability programs unde...

VALUE OF SAMPLE SEPARATION INFORMATION IN A SEQUENTIAL PROBIT MODEL Another Look at SSA's Disability Determination Process

SUMMARY We have estimated a 4-step sequential probit model with and without sample separation information to characterize SSA's disability determination process. Under the program provisions, different criteria dictate the outcomes at different steps of the process. We used data on health, activity limitations, demographic traits, and work from 1990 SIPP exact matched to SSA administrative reco...