Protecting the entitlements of the mentally disabled: The SSDI/SSI legal battles of the 1980s

Rubenstein, Leonard S.; Gattozzi, Antoinette A.; Goldman, Howard H.

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“…In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Social Security Administration ushered in new but undisclosed rules for assessing disability claims of people with psychiatric impairments. Under the new rules, the evaluation of a claimant's actual ability to work as required by law was replaced by formulas that had no basis in medicine, rehabilitation research, or law (Rubenstein, Gattozzi, and Goldman, 1988;Rubenstein, 1985). The rules were put into effect at the same time as the Social Security Administration embarked on congressionally mandated reviews of the eligibility of thousands of disability beneficiaries-reviews the newly installed Reagan Administration accelerated in anticipation of huge savings .…”

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New funding strategy for housing for people with mental disabilities

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James²

1990

New Directions for Mental Health Services

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New funding strategy for housing for people with mental disabilities

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1990

New Directions for Mental Health Services

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Social Security and Disability Due to Mental Impairment in Adults

Goldman

Frey

Riley

2018

Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) oversees two disability programs, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Adults with mental impairments represent a very large component of the programs. Policy makers and SSA are concerned about the accuracy of disability determination and also about low levels of labor force participation among individuals with disabilities. Adults with mental impairments are challenging to assess for work-related functional limitations. They are also a challenge to return to labor force participation. SSA has sponsored several demonstration research programs focusing on improving the accuracy of disability determination and on interventions in supported employment to return individuals with mental impairments to competitive employment. This article reviews the demonstration research focused on both entry into the disability system (at the "front door") and potential exit from it (through the "back door"). All of the research holds promise to "right-size" the SSA disability program.

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Balance of Powers: Social Security and the Mentally Disabled, 1980-1985

Goldman

Gattozzi²

1988

The Milbank Quarterly

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Concern about costs in the early 1980s led both Congress and the newly installed Reagan administration to initiate an intensive review of eligibility for disability benefits under the Social Security system. Within a year it became apparent that a high percentage of mentally disabled were being declared ineligible. Much of the problem derived from the use of outdated criteria to determine mental disability. After a protracted struggle, the executive branch yielded to pressure from various advocacy groups, as well as the judiciary and legislative branches, and began to revise the criteria on the basis of contemporary psychiatric and rehabilitation standards.

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Protecting the entitlements of the mentally disabled: The SSDI/SSI legal battles of the 1980s

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New funding strategy for housing for people with mental disabilities

New funding strategy for housing for people with mental disabilities

Social Security and Disability Due to Mental Impairment in Adults

Balance of Powers: Social Security and the Mentally Disabled, 1980-1985

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