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HRD-81-22 1 (1980-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbfc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Offic Human Res.urces Washington, DC 20548 Divisici B-201008 NOVEMBER 10, 1980 The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris The Secretary of Health and Hurmpn Services Dear Mrs. Harris: 113739 Subject: The /Social Security Administration's Beneficiary Rehabilitation Prograf§ (HRD-81-22) At the request of the Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight, House Committee on Ways and Means, we reviewed the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Beneficiary Rehabilitation Program (BRP). BRP's primary purpose is to provide savings to the trust funds by rehabilitating as many disabled beneficiaries as possible into the work force, thereby terminating their social security disability benefits. The Chairman's major concern was whether avail- able data could be used to determine the program's effec- tiveness. We found that, although it is responsible for evaluating the program, SSA has neither collected all the necessary data nor established a management information system essential to assessing the program's effectiveness. In addition, the eligibility of many beneficiaries who were served under BRP was questionable because they were expected to medically re- cover at the time they were awarded disability benefits. This condition is similar to what we reported in 1976 1/-- about 50 percent of the individuals whose social security disability payments were terminated were beneficiaries whom SSA had expected to medically recover at the time of initial eligibility determination. l/Improvements Needed in Rehabilitating Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries (MWD-76-66, May 13, 1976). (105090) /<Z >1<

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