From the Washington Post:
The Social Security Administration has abandoned plans to block thousands of older Americans from qualifying for disability benefits after an uproar that reached senior officials in the Trump White House, according to people familiar with the decision.
The agency is also halting a plan to use modern labor market data to help judge whether disability claimants can work, a project that has cost the federal government more than $350 million so far. The new data would have replaced a long-outdated jobs database that until recently included obsolete occupations such as nut sorters and telephone quotation clerks. …
Jason Turkish — an attorney representing disabled people and co-founder of the advocacy group Alliance for America’s Promise — said SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano and other administration officials assured him in meetings over the past week that the proposal would not move forward. A former Social Security executive familiar with the disability program confirmed that Bisignano has scrapped the proposed rule. …
4 comments:
I take a lot of heat for defending Frank on here. I’ve been called a hack, a paid shill. But this shows you: Frank really cares people!
Frank saw a mob walking toward him. He got ahead of the crowd and he called it a parade. Frank is a front runner. He has enough problems outside his job and the current administration is getting weaker by the second.
As you should he couldn’t care less about anything except his bank account!
Frank actually cares about people with disabilities and their families. That’s why the disability backlog continues to fall from all-time highs under the mismanagement of the last administration. And that’s why the agency is going to thoughtfully pursue vocational rules modernization rather than recycle failed proposals from the past. The guy deserves a lot of credit for this!
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