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SSA’s Disability Programs
Are Difficult to Administer
Disability programs:
- Pay out less than 1/5 of total SSA benefits, but consume over 1/2 of SSA’s administrative resources
- Face long-standing challenges of timeliness, accuracy, and consistency of disability decisions
SSA has spent over $100 million to address these problems, but has achieved little to date