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2 Administrative Conference News 1 (1988)

handle is hein.usfed/admcfnws0002 and id is 1 raw text is: ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE Am iMoto LXIV Administrative Conference of the United States Winter 1988 Volume HI, Number 1 Administrative Conference Recommends Improvements to Social Security and Medicare Programs The Administrative Conference of the resolution of disability cases. It urged United States has recommended three the Social Security Administration to specific improvements to the Social continue its experiments concerning Security and Medicare systems as well greater use of face-to-face hearings pro- as four other formal recommendations cedures at this initial stage. intended to improve the administrative A second recommendation seeks a processes at other federal agencies. The restructuring of the Social Security Ap- recommendations were adopted at the peals Council, the body before which Conference's December 17-18 plenary dissatisfied claimants now must seek session, final agency review before resorting to Two of the health care funding recom- a federal court. The Conference recom- mendations deal with Social Security mended that the status of the Appeals disability determinations, a federal pro- Council be enhanced and its role in the gram that involves more than seven decisional process revised so that it may million beneficiaries at an annual cost better establish adjudicatory principles of $29 billion. In the first recommen- and. decisional standards for determin- dation, the Conference called for more ing disability eligibility throughout the personal attention in the initial deter- determination process. At present the mination of claims (by state-level deci- Appeals Council suffers from a tyranny sionmakers) in order to achieve earlier (Continued on page 4) Secretary of Transportation James H. Burnley IV addresses plenary session following swearing in, with Chairman Breger and Attorney General Edwin Meese looking on. Highlights Administrative Conference Recommends Improvements to Social Security and Medicare Programs ........................ 1 Race to the Courthouse Reform Bill Enacted .......... 3 Tisch Calls for Further Broadcast Deregulation ....... 5 Conference Increases ADR Activity .......................... 5 Features Notes from the Chairman ...... 2 Research Update ................. 6 Staff Notes ....................... 7 Legislative Developments ....... 9 Reg-Neg Watch .................. 10 In Print ........................... 11 Membership News ................ 12 Co rtose

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