IARP Survey On Social Security's Proposed Occupational Information System

The International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals (IARP) has surveyed its members on how Social Security should collect data for the Occupational Information System that the agency's Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel (OIDAP) is working on.

It is good to see that IARP is keeping a tab on OIDAP's work. Somebody needs to. OIDAP's work sounds horribly technical, but the ultimate result of what OIDAP is doing could be far more or far fewer Social Security disability claims being approved -- and I would not bet on the outcome being far more claims approved.

I have this fear that most of those involved at OIDAP either do not care what happens to Social Security disability claimants or that most of those involved believe that Social Security disability benefits are almost unnecessary or undesirable because they naively think that almost any disabled person can be rehabilitated. However, I remind myself that it looks like Social Security had already made all the key decisions before OIDAP ever started meeting and that those decisions will delay any action that will affect any Social Security claimant until after Michael Astrue leaves office. Perhaps, delaying any tough decision until after Astrue leaves office is the real point of OIDAP.