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Annual Reports

• 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998

Message to Congress and the Administration

• Chairman Sylvester J. Schieber’s Testimony to the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means April 28, 2009
• Challenges Facing the Social Security Administration: Present and Future–Report to the President-Elect Transition Team, December 16, 2008
• Chairman Sylvester J. Schieber’s Testimony to the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, September 16, 2008
• Chairman Sylvester J. Schieber's Testimony before the United States House Ways and Means Committee on Social Security Disability Backlogs Apr. 23, 2008
• Chairman Sylvester J Schieber’s Testimony before SS Subcomittee, February 14, 2007
• Agenda for Social Security: Challenges for the New Congress and the New Administration, February 2001

Disability

• Address of Sylvester J. Schieber to the 2008 NADE National Conference, September 18, 2008
• A Disability System for the 21st Century, September 2006 SUMMARY 
• Improving the Social Security Administration's Hearing Process, September 2006 SUMMARY
• Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials, May 2006 SUMMARY
• Board Comments on Ticket To Work Regulations, December 2005
• The Social Security Definition of Disability, October 2003  SUMMARY
• Introducing Nonadversarial Government Representatives to Improve the record for Decision in Social Security Disability Adjudications, May 2003
• Alternative Approaches to Judicial Review of Social Security Disability Cases, March 2002
• Charting the Future of Social Security's Disability Programs: The Need for Fundamental Change, January 2001
• Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials (Part One), January 2001 
• Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials (Part Two), January 2001
• How SSA's Disability Programs Can Be Improved, August 1998

Financing

• Working for Retirement Security, September 2008 SUMMARY
• The 2007 Technical Panel Report on Assumptions and Methods, October 2007
• Social Security:  Why Action Should Be Taken Soon, September 2005 SUMMARY
• Overview and Discussion of the Social Security Mortality Projections, May 2005
• Retirement Security: The Unfolding of a Predictable Surprise, March 2005 SUMMARY
• SSAB Statement on CBO Projections, June 2004
• The 2003 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods Report, October 2003
• Estimating the Real Rate of Return on Stocks Over the Long Term, August 2001
• Social Security: Why Action Should Be Taken Soon, Revised Edition, July 2001
• The 1999 Technical Panel on Assumptions and Methods, November 1999
• Social Security: Why Action Should Be Taken Soon, July 1998

Forum Reports

• Discussion Forum on the Definition of Disibility, April 14, 2004
• Forum on Implications of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age, May 1999
• Forum on a Long-Range Research and Program Evaluation Plan for the Social Security Administration, June 24, 1997

Issue Briefs

• Issue Brief #1  The Impact of Immigration on Social Security and the National Economy, December 2005
• Issue Brief #2  Statement of the Supplemental Security Income Program, May 2006
• Issue Brief #3  Office of Personnel Management's Role in Hiring Administrative Law Judges, April 2007
• Issue Brief #4  Disability Programs in the 21st Century: Substantial Gainful Activity, April 2009

Policy and Research

• Strengthening Social Security Research: The Responsibilities of the Social Security Administration, January 1998
• Developing Social Security Policy: How the Social Security Administration Can Provide Greater Policy Leadership, March 1997 [This is a scanned version of the Board's first report.]

Service to the Public

• Bridging the Gap: Improving SSA’s Public Service through Technology, April 2009
• How the Social Security Administration Can Improve Its Service To The Public, September 1999
• Increasing Public Understanding of Social Security, September 1997

Stewardship and Integrity

• SSA's Obligation To Ensure That The Public's Funds Are Responsibly Collected and Expended, March 2002 

Supplemental Security Income Statements

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