Regulatory Agenda

      Federal agencies are required to publish quarterly summaries of agency rules under development. Not all of these come to pass and it can take time, often years, for the rules to be adopted. We shall see but delay may be a bigger problem now with reduced staffing levels and the loss of experienced employees. Basically, current Social Security management may have what I would consider evil intentions  but have little idea how to be evil or have the staff to accomplish the evil.

     Anyway, here’s Social Security’s most recent list. You can read a brief and often maddeningly elliptical summary of what is being considered by clicking on the RIN link for the rule.

Agency	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking	Title	RIN
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Combatting Fraud and Similar Fault to Strengthen the Integrity of Social Security	0960-AI10
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Civil Monetary Penalties, Assessments, and Recommended Exclusions	0960-AI49
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Improvements to the Disability Adjudication Process: Sequential Evaluation Process	0960-AI67
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Rescinding the Burdensome Use Restrictions of Dedicated Accounts	0960-AI92
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Rescission of Changes to the Definition of a Public Assistance Household	0960-AI94
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Removing Bench Decisions To Improve Decision Efficiency and Accuracy	0960-AI98
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Incorrect Terminology in Regulatory Text; Correction	0960-AI99
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Setting the Manner of Appearance for Disability Hearings	0960-AJ00
SSA	Proposed Rule Stage	Notice of a Hearing and How to Request a Hearing Before an Administrative Law Judge	0960-AJ01
SSA	Final Rule Stage	Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Cardiovascular Disorders	0960-AI43
SSA	Final Rule Stage	Penalty Inflation Adjustments for Civil Monetary Penalties	0960-AI72
SSA	Final Rule Stage	Extension of Expiration Dates for 13 Body System Listings	0960-AI95
SSA	Final Rule Stage	Rescission of the Extension of the Flexibility in Evaluating "Close Proximity of Time" to Evaluate Changes in Healthcare	0960-AI96