A Social Security Advisory Board Forum
March 8, 2013, Washington D.C.
Forum Presentations
I. The Urgency of Reforming SSDI
Stephen Goss, Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration
“Financial Outlook of SSDI Program”
Mark Duggan, Professor and Chair, Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
“Factors Driving the Financial Outlook”
Nicole Maestas, Director, Center for Disability Research, RAND Corporation
“The Effect of SSDI on Employment and Earnings”
II. Models to Promote Labor Force Attachments
Andrew Houtenville, Associate Professor of Economics, Research Director of the Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire
“Framing the Issues Surrounding SSDI”
Mary Daly, Group Vice President and Associate Director of Research, Microeconomic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
“International Experience with Disability Reform”
Ron Haskins, Co-Director, Center on Children and Families, Budgeting for National Priorities, Brookings Institution
“Gleanings from Welfare Reform and Work”
James Smith, Budget and Policy Manager, Vermont Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
“Benefit Offset as a Return-to-Work Model”
III. Interventions to Achieve Better Case Outcomes
Melissa Davey, Vice President, Social Security and Managed Disability Services, GENEX Services, Inc.
“The Private Sector Experience: Early Intervention with Case Management”
Andrew Imparato, Senior Counsel and Disability Policy Director, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
“Youth Transition to the World of Work” (no slides)
Bryon MacDonald, Program Director, Employment and Disability Benefits Initiative, World Institute on Disability
“The Individual Perspective: How to Re-Enter the Workforce”
IV. Reform Proposals: Toward Fiscal and Structural Balance
David Autor, Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Supporting Work: A Proposal for Modernizing the U.S. Disability Insurance System”
Jason Turner, Executive Director, Secretary’s Innovation Group
“Reforming Disability – Secretary’s Innovation Group”
David Stapleton, Senior Fellow & Director, Center for Studying Disability Policy, Mathematica Policy Research
“A Process for Reforming Disability Policy”
Jack Smalligan, Acting Deputy Associate Director of the Education, Income Maintenance and Labor Division, Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
“An Evidence-Based Path to Disability Insurance Reform”
Address to the Forum
Michael J. Astrue, Former Commissioner (2007-2013), Social Security Administration
“Straight Talk about ‘Disability Reform’”
Forum Participants
List of attendees
Reform Proposals Distributed at the Forum
These four proposals have been put forth by speakers at the SSAB sponsored forum.
The Social Security Advisory Board does not and has not endorsed any reform proposal.
“Supporting Work: A Proposal for Modernizing the U.S. Disability Insurance System”
David Autor and Mark Duggan, December 2010
“Reforming Disability”
Secretary’s Innovation Group
Elosie Anderson, Jason Turner and Richard Burkhauser
“A Roadmap to a 21st-Century Disability Policy”
David Mann and David Stapleton, January 2012
“An Evidence-Based Path to Disability Insurance Reform”
Jeffrey Liebman and Jack Smalligan, February 2013
Social Security Advisory Board Publications distributed at the Forum
The following publications were distributed at the Forum.
For a full list of SSAB publications, see Research.
Filing for Social Security Disability Benefits: What Impact Does Professional Representation Have on the Process at the Initial Level, September 2012
Aspects of Disability Decision Making: Data and Materials, February 2012
A Disability System for the 21st Century, September 2006
2006 Disability System for the 21st Century_2006.pdf
2012 Chartbook_Aspects of Disability Decision Making_2012.pdf
2012 Chartbook_Aspects of Disability Decision Making_2012_Summary.pdf
2012 Chartbook_Disability_2012_Complete_Data.xlsx
2012 Filing for Social Security Benefits_Representation_2012.pdf
2012 Filing for Social Security Benefits_Representation_2012_508.pdf
2012 Filing for Social Security Benefits_Representation_2012_Summary.pdf