November 2019 Board Meeting

11/21/2019

On November 21st, the Board continued its congressionally requested examination of possible improvements to the initial and reconsideration levels of Social Security’s disability determination process with two public roundtables.

Meeting Agenda Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

Key proposals and recommendations under discussion included:

Improve the SSDI Program and Address the Impending Trust Fund Depletion: Consensus Recommendations of BPC’s Disability Insurance Working Group, Bipartisan Policy Center, August 2015.
Psychological Testing in the Service of Disability Determination, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Psychological Testing, Including Validity Testing, for Social Security Administration Disability Determinations, 2015.
Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Functional Assessment for Adults with Disabilities, 2019. Resolving Issues Identified During the Social Security Administration’s Quality Reviews of Disability Determinations, Office of the Inspector General, (A-01-11-11119), April 2012.
Ray, Gerald and Glenn Sklar. “An Operational Approach to Eliminating Backlogs in the Social Security Disability Program.” McCrey-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Initiative, June 2019.
Training at offices that make disability determinations, The Office of Inspector General, (A-01-11-21169), March 2012.
Roundtable Discussion on the Social Security Disability Process (National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Council of Disability Determination Directors, National Council of Social Security Management Associations, National Council on Disability, National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives), Social Security Advisory Board, March 27, 2019.