May 2014 Board Meeting
05/07/2014 - 05/08/2014
On the first day, the Board met with scholars at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College to discuss retirement policy. The Board spoke with economists about the financial security of retirees and discussed options for reducing retirement risk, the status of state and local pensions and how reform could impact employees. In the afternoon, the Board travelled to the National Bureau of Economic Research to question economists about retirement savings and incentives to increase savings for retirement. On the second day, the Board met with Congressional staff responsible for constituent service related to Social Security. Next, the Board traveled to the Boston Regional Office for meeting with executives and management. The Board solicited ideas from the regional office about ways to improve service to the public, reduce fraud, and manage the disability adjudication process. Representatives from the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review discussed initiatives to improve the quality of decisions made by administrative law judges and processes used to monitor progress. Afterward, the Board traveled to a SSA field office to observe interaction with the public and to speak with employees about ground-level concerns.