Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Disability determinations at the Social Security Administration slowed during the worst days of the pandemic, and a hitch in a mobile ...

Traditionally, the Social Security Administration (SSA) followed a pretty comprehensive process to evaluate disability claims. The in-depth nature of the process is meant to provide accurate ...

The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall form an ad hoc planning committee to plan and host a public workshop that will facilitate a ...

Frank Joyce, a registered nurse, has been appointed senior director of UMass Medical School’s Disability Evaluation Services, following a successful stint as interim senior director. In this senior ...

Broader use of standardized psychological testing for applicants submitting disability claims to the US Social Security Administration should improve the accuracy and consistency of disability ...

Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. The Social ...

The age and vocational factors come into play in determining whether or not an individual who can no longer perform their past work is able to adjust to other work. However, ability to adjust to work ...

The Social Security Disability Insurance system was established as a social safety net program for workers who lose the physical or mental ability to work at a sustainable gainful activity level. It ...