November 2014 Board Meeting
11/17/2014
In the morning, the Board met with Marianna LaCanfora, Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Retirement and Disability Policy (ORDP) at the Social Security Administration (SSA). She discussed current ORDP projects as well as their respective challenges. In the afternoon, the Board met with Glenn Sklar, Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) and Deputy Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Jack Allen. Mr. Sklar and Judge Allen were invited primarily to discuss the growing backlog at the hearing level of disability adjudication, and to address potential solutions to that backlog. Lastly, the Board met with Bill Zielinski, Deputy Commissioner for Systems and Chief Information Officer at SSA. Mr. Zielinski discussed the agency’s Disability Case Processing System (DCPS) initiative, which aims at making disability case processing more seamless by integrating over 50 state disability systems into one, centralized federal system.