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Social Security and Disability

One-Time Payments to Social Security Beneficiaries in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act- FAQs (February 2009)
Social Security First to Use Nationwide Health Information Network for Disability Decisions (December 17, 2008)
SAB Issue Brief: Need for Review of SSI’s Benefit Levels, Asset Limits, Income Exclusions (October 27, 2008)
SSI, Youth Transition Demonstration Notice of Extension (March 17, 2008)
Social Security Announces 2.3% Benefit Increase Beginning January (October 19, 2007)
GAO Highlights High Risk Areas in Federal Disability Programs (January 31, 2007)
NCD Issue Brief on the Basics of the National Council on Disability’s Social Security Report (December 2006)
SSA Proposes Changes to Disability Determination Process (July 2005)
Top Ten Facts On Its 70th Anniversary (CBPP, August 11, 2005)
CCD Testimony Before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, "Protecting and Strengthening Social Secuirty" (May 17, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - Overview (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - How Does Social Security Help People with Disabilities & Their Families? (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - How is Social Security Funded? (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - How Will Individual Private Accounts Affect Social Security? (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - A Checklist: Effect of Proposed Changes on People with Disabilities & Their Families? (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - How are the Social Security & SSI Disability Programs Different? (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - What Benefits Do People With Disabilities and Their Families Get from Social Security? (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)
Social Security Fact Sheet - How Does Social Security Protect Young Workers & Their Families (Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, March 14, 2005)

Social Security General Information

Social Security Reform

Social Security Reform: GAO Primer on Social Security Reform: Answers to Key Questions (GAO, May 2005)
President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security Releases Final Report (.pdf file) Appendix (.pdf file)

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