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HEHS-95-253R 1 (1995-09-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackxy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education and Human Services Division B-265844 September 7, 1995 The Honorable Jim Bunning Chairman, Subcommittee on Social Security Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter is in response to your request for information on the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Research Demonstration Program (RDP) and Project NetWork (PN). These two programs represent a culmination of SSA's research efforts over the past 15 years aimed at improving its processes for rehabilitating people receiving disability benefits. In 1994, SSA paid $57 billion in disability benefits to 7.2 million beneficiaries under the Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. Although legislation that created DI and SSI established the policy that as many beneficiaries as possible be rehabilitated into productive activity, few beneficiaries are entering productive activity. In fact, only one out of 1,000 beneficiaries leaves the rolls as a result of SSA-funded rehabilitation efforts. In response to your request, we examined how and why the RDP was conducted, what it cost, and what it found; how and why PN is being conducted and what SSA expects it to cost; and what PN has found so far and the current status of the project. To develop this information, we synthesized published RDP and PN project documentation and interviewed SSA's Co-Project Officer for Project NetWork. As agreed with your staff, we did not verify the information with other sources, such as Abt Associates, SSA's PN contractor, or PN case managers or demonstration participants in various PN demonstration sites. Nor did we review SSA's contractual agreements with firms responsible for part of the PN demonstration. We conducted our work between June and August, 1995, in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. SSA'S RESEARCH DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM To help DI beneficiaries return to work, the Congress authorized SSA to test new forms of rehabilitation and GAO/HEES-95-253R SSA's Rehabilitation Programs

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