Social Security: Little Success Achieved in Rehabilitating Disabled Beneficiaries.
Abstract
Since the beginning of the Social Security Disability Insurance Program in 1954, the Congress has expressed its desire to have as many beneficiaries as possible rehabilitated to productive employment. Historically, however, relatively few beneficiaries have been placed in competitive jobs and removed from the benefit rolls. The Chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security, House Committee on Ways and Means, asked GAO to review the relationship between the disability program and vocational rehabilitation programs. He sought to learn how the current disability program might be changed to rehabilitate larger numbers of disability applicants. GAO designed its review primarily to explore: why vocational rehabilitation programs have rehabilitated few disability beneficiaries, whether differing state policies on referral of persons to vocational rehabilitation agencies affect the number of beneficiaries removed from the disability rolls, and what changes vocational rehabilitation professionals believe are needed to increase the number of disability beneficiaries who resume work at some level.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA189210
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office