Social Security News

      It was a busy Saturday for Social Security. Yes, a busy Saturday!      First, Social Security has added significantly more data to the...

      David Weaver asks why Social Security doesn't do something about its reliance upon the ancient Dictionary of Occupational Titles ...

    Andrew Van Dam at the Washington Post has written a "Department of Data" piece on the Social Security Administration's co...

      David Weaver, a former Social Security official, has written a piece for The Hill urging that incoming Social Security Commissioner O...

    Social Security's continued use of wildly outdated vocational information in determining disability continues to draw media attentio...

    The table below is from the Department of Labor's Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS). This is what Social Security hopes to use...

      The Washington Post has a new editorial out criticizing Social Security for failing to use the new occupational information system th...

      Lisa Rein at the Washington Post has a long piece out on Social Security’s use of the horribly outdated Dictionary of Occupational Ti...

      I just saw that the National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR) has scheduled training on the Occupational Requirements...

      From a notice of a book forthcoming in September : . .. In Social Security Disability Law and the American Labor Market, Jon C. Dubin...

     From WBTV in Charlotte: A WBTV Investigation into social security shows thousands of people are denied disability claims every year ...

     I've finally gotten around to the sort of list you've seen a lot of in the last couple of weeks -- the most important things ...

     The National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE) has posted its most recent newsletter.  NADE members make determinations on d...

     The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Biestek v. Berryhill , a Sixth Circuit Social Security case presenting the issue: Whether a ...

     The National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE), an organization of the personnel who make initial and reconsideration determ...

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     Here's something I posted on October 26, 2015 : The National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE), an organization of pe...

     The abstract of Surveillance-system Monitors in the Work Force Kincaid Vocational and Rehabilitation Services in the Journal of For...

From Brookings Instititute

     The National Association of Disability Examiners (NADE), an organization of the personnel who are involved in making initial and reco...