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Social Security Disability Programs: Improving the Quality of Benefit Award Decisions

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Location: Room 342, Dirksen Senate Office Building



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Agenda

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has scheduled a hearing on its investigation of the Social Security Administration’s disability programs, which will be held on September 13, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.  
The Subcommittee will examine issues related to the quality of disability benefit awards involving 300 case files of claimants under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplement Security Income (SSI) programs involving initial applications and subsequent levels of appeal.
Witnesses will include the following representatives from the Social Security Administration.  A final witness list will be available Tuesday, September 11, 2012.  

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing regarding its investigation of the Social Security Administration’s disability programs on September 13, 2012, at 9:30 a.m., in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.  

The Subcommittee examined issues related to the quality of disability benefit awards involving 300 case files of claimants under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplement Security Income (SSI) programs involving initial applications and subsequent levels of appeal.  

Witnesses

PANEL 1

  • JUDGE  PATRICIA A. JONAS
    Appellate Operations Executive Director, Deputy Chair, Appeals Council,
    Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration
    Falls Church, VA
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  • JUDGE  DEBRA BICE
    Chief Administrative Law Judge
    Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration
    Falls Church, VA
    Download Testimony (107.2 KB)

PANEL 2

  • JUDGE   DOUGLAS S. STULTS
    Hearing Office Chief Administrative Law Judge
    Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration
    Oklahoma City, OK
    Download Testimony (30 KB)
  • JUDGE   THOMAS W. ERWIN
    Hearing Office Chief Administrative Law Judge
    Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration
    Roanoke, VA
    Download Testimony (29.3 KB)
  • JUDGE   OLLIE L. GARMON, III
    Regional Chief Administrative Law Judge (Region IV)
    Office of Disability Adjudication and Review, Social Security Administration
    Atlanta, VA
    Download Testimony (42.3 KB)