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HEHS-95-154R 1 (1995-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackuw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-261331 May 11, 1995 The Honorable Rick Santorum United States Senate Dear Senator Santorum: This letter responds to several Supplemental Security Income (SSI) issues you raised when we testified on growth in the federal disability programs at a March 1995 Senate hearing of the Special Committee on Aging.' Specifically, these issues relate to (1) the nature and extent of SSI outreach activities carried out by the Social Security Administration (SSA), (2) the status of SSI continuing disability reviews (CDR) on disability claims involving interpreter fraud, (3) the function of Referral and Monitoring Agencies (RMA) in overseeing the drug addict and alcoholic population, and (4) the extent that drug addicts and alcoholics are in treatment. In brief, our work shows that -- most of SSI outreach has been directed by the Congress, and very little of it is targeted to drug addicts and alcoholics; -- the CDRs that SSA conducts on SSI recipients involved with interpreter fraud are yielding a high rate of initial benefit terminations; -- RMAs do not conduct SSI outreach; and -- many addicts are not being monitored, and relatively few are in treatment. SSI OUTREACH As early as 1974, when the SSI program began, concerns were raised whether all eligible individuals were participating in the program, particularly the elderly. Over the years, these concerns have persisted and expanded to include many 'Social Security: Federal Disability Programs Face Major Issues (GAO/T-HEHS-95-97, Mar. 2, 1995). GAO/HEHS-95-154R SSI Disability Issues 0/

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