June 2016 Board Meeting
06/23/2016
The Board met with Stephen Evangelista, Paul Davies, and Laura Haltzel from the Office of Data Exchange and Policy Publications (ODEPP). The overall presentation was concentrated on data exchange issues such as requests and agreements, current workload of the office and an overview of the process. The Board met with Terrie Gruber and Gerald Ray from the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR). Ms. Gruber provided an update on CARES (A Plan for Compassionate and Responsive Service). Judge Ray gave a demonstration of the Natural Language Processing Software, a program that can take unstructured decision text and convert it to structured data to aid in the disability decision making process. The Board met with Steve Goss and Karen Glenn from the Office of the Chief Actuary. Mr. Goss spoke to the Board about the recently released 2016 Trustees Report. He focused on the status of the OASDI trust funds, falling disability applications, the projected shortfall and the workforce participation and projections. The Board met with Rob Klopp from the Office of Systems for an update to the SSA Systems overhaul. Mr. Klopp explained the three step modernization plan SSA is undertaking; creating a new database, changing the SSA business process, and integrating to a cloud system.