Social Security: SSA Could Save Millions by Targeting Reviews of State Disability Decisions

Abstract

The Social Security Administration (SSA) spent about $29.2 million in fiscal year 1988 reviewing disability decisions made by state disability determination services (DDSS). These reviews are done primarily to (1) measure DDS performance in meeting accuracy standards and (2) correct as many erroneous benefit allowances as possible. This report evaluates SSA's effectiveness in accomplishing the latter objective

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA280731

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  • United States Government Accountability Office

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Accounting
  • Accuracy
  • Congress
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Errors
  • Executives
  • House Of Representatives
  • Human Resources
  • Law
  • Lung Diseases
  • Personnel Management
  • Physicians
  • Sampling
  • Social Security
  • Statistical Samples
  • Statistical Sampling
  • United States

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