Challenges Facing Social Security Disability Programs in the 21st Century: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, July 13, 2000, Volume 4

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Page 25 - Disability: Return-to-Work Strategies From Other Systems May Improve Federal Programs (GAO/HEHS-96-133, July 11, 1996). Social Security: Disability Programs Lag in Promoting Return to Work (GAO/THEHS-96-147, June 5, 1996). SSA Disability: Program Redesign Necessary to Encourage Return to Work (GAO/ HEHS-96-62, Apr. 24, 1996). Chairman SHAW.
Page 2 - has fostered the expectation that people with disabilities can work and have the right to work. The "Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999
Page 39 - The mission of the CDC is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. We
Page 63 - Director of Government Activities for NISH and Vice Chair of the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities. CCD is a coalition of nearly 100 national organizations advocating on behalf of people with all types of physical and mental disabilities. I am testifying today in my role as a Co-Chair of the CCD Task Force on Social Security.
Page 34 - an impairment of mind or body which continuously renders it impossible for the disabled person to follow any substantial gainful occupation,
Page 24 - 2000). Social Security Disability: Multiple Factors Affect Return to Work (GAO/T-HEHS99-82, Mar. 11, 1999). Social Security Disability Insurance: Factors Affecting Beneficiaries' Return to Work (GAO/T-HEHS-98-230, July 29, 1998). Social Security Disability Insurance: Multiple Factors Affect Beneficiaries' Ability to Return to Work (GAO/HEHS-98-39, Jan. 12, 1998). Social Security: Disability
Page 24 - or Members of the Subcommittee may have. GAO CONTACT AND STAFF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For future contacts regarding this testimony, please call Barbara D. Bovbjerg at (202) 512-7215. Carol Dawn Petersen, Barbara H.
Page 20 - DDS teams of medical and psychological consultants and disability examiners are hired and trained to assess eligibility of applicants to receive cash benefits rather than to enhance claimants' capacity to work. As a result, the staff of SSA and the DDSs do not have the expertise to carry out the role of returning disabled workers to productive employment.
Page 82 - clients' involvement in productive and other activities. Performance areas, performance components, and performance contexts are the parameters of occupational therapy's domain of concern. • Performance areas are broad categories of human activity that are typically part of daily life.

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