Chairman Sylvester J. Schieber's Testimony before the United States House Ways and Means Committee on Social Security Disability Backlogs Apr. 23, 2008

Forum: Working Toward Retirement Security: Policies to Help Extend the Working Life of Older Americans

PRESENTATION MATERIALS

Forum held Friday, January 18, 2008 Sponsored by the Social Security Advisory Board and the University of Illinois Center for Business and Public Policy.

Issue Brief: Office of Personnel Management's Role in Hiring Administrative Law Judges

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in 1946 established the position of administrative law judge (ALJ). It included provisions designed to ensure the ALJs? impartiality by insulating them from improper pressure.

Chairman Sylvester J. Schieber's Testimony before the United States House Social Security Subcommittee on Social Security Disability Backlogs Feb. 14, 2007

Social Security Disability Backlogs

Chairman McNulty, Mr. Johnson, Members of the Subcommittee. I am pleased to have this opportunity to appear on behalf of the Social Security Advisory Board to discuss the backlogs in the Social Security disability programs.

REPORT: A Disability System for the 21st Century

In its October 2003 report, The Social Security Definition of Disability, the Social Security Advisory Board observed that, "The original Social Security disability programs were designed to serve those who had no realistic expectation of a return to the workforce because of a combination of severity of disability and attainment of near retirement age."

REPORT: Improving the Social Security Administration's Hearing Process

Over the past two years, the Social Security Advisory Board has been examining the SSA hearing process, focusing attention on issues of consistency, productivity, long processing times and large backlogs, hearing office management, and the relationship between the agency and its corps of administrative law judges.

REPORT: Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials

The Social Security Advisory Board assembled this compendium of data and materials relating to the Social Security disability programs for its own use and for the benefit of policymakers and others interested in the programs.

REPORT: Social Security: Why Action Should Be Taken Soon

The Social Security Advisory Board issued this report to point out the many reasons why it is important for policymakers to act sooner rather than later to make the changes that are needed to restore to a state of solvency the Social Security program that plays a foundational role in assuring retirement security to the working men and women of America and to their families.

REPORT: Retirement Security: The Unfolding of a Predictable Surprise

Over the course of the 20th century this nation developed a complex of public and private programs that have considerably advanced the objective set forth in the 1965 Older Americans Act of an adequate income in retirement in accordance with the "American standard of living."