Social Security has published the Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) on Quick Disability Determinations (QDD). The NPRM would remove the 20 day time limit on making QDDs and take QDDs out of special units in the experiment that had been underway in the Boston region. In other words, QDDs will identical to the process which has been in place since forever for placing the most seriously disabled on benefits very quickly. This NPRM is completely meaningless for any part of the country other than the Boston region and has almost no meaning for that region.
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Actually, this is meaningful for the entire country. The QDD process being used in Boston is being expanded nationwide, with a vew minor changes. The very fist sentence of the summary says, "We propose to amend our regulations to extend the quick disability determination process (QDD), which is operating now in the Boston region, to all of the State disability determination services."
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