Social Security will publish proposed regulations on the frequency of continuing disability reviews in the Federal Register on Monday. You can read the proposal today.
They propose to add a new category, Medical Improvement Likely (MIL), to be reviewed every two years. MIL is aimed at a group of impairments which they say fit between the categories of Medical Improvement Expected (MIE) and Medical Improvement Possible (MIP). They say they will include anxiety related disorders in this category. I don't understand that. Anxiety disorders don't respond well to treatment. Panic disorders, the most commonly disabling anxiety disorder, are quite unresponsive to treatment.
They propose to increase the frequency of reviews for the category of Medical Improvement Not Expected (MINE) from seven years to six years.
Overall, they expect to increase Continuing Disability Review (CDRs) by more than 1.1 million a year.
I love how this is all couched in language about helping people get back to work. That's baloney. Disability benefits recipients already have plenty of incentives to return to work. Some people who are cut off benefits return to work; many don't. This certainly doesn't help anyone return to work.
This is just a proposal. The public can comment. Social Security must review the comments. Once the agency is finished reviewing the comments and making any changes they want to make, it has to go back to the Office of Management and Budget for review before publication as final regulations. This process may extend past the next inauguration day. Even if pushed out before that date, an incoming Administration may decide not to implement them.
6 comments:
But when unemployment is low so is the number of new filings, guess some of them can and do work.
@3:30
Or employers are willing to make accommodations because they are desperate for workers.
@3:30
Or disabled people that are cut off will force themselves to work, KNOWING it will take decades off their life, in order to maintain what dignity they would still have after being backhanded by the government, only to end up back on disability to cover their hospice. Sounds totally moral to me. *eye roll*.
You folks just cant get over the fact that they are working can you?
12:50 what is your solution? if they file pay them regardless of the evidence? If so you do not want a disability program but a national guarantee income. The two are exclusive and using the disability program as a national income program is wrong. So why you are rolling your eyes on the high horse of perceived morality, what are you doing to help those with disabilities overcome conditions and gain skills needed to be employed? What are you doing, other than posting on obscure blogs to change the system?
Roll your eyes, I have people to help while you gloat about your "morality."
@9:46
12:50 here. I'm dying. I guess that's the solution to SSA's problems? Is that considered doing something to help?
Still Waiting 12:50 to hear anything that you are doing?
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