At the end of fiscal year 2010, the Social Security Administration (SSA) had a backlog of almost 850,000 initial claims.
thanks to the Recovery Act and increased funding, your agency was able to hire thousands of new employees.
Over the past years, Social Security disability claims have risen across the Nation.
You also testified that measuring the work output of each work unit would help SSA more accurately measure productivity and direct its resou...
I think that we can do better.
It would put ALJs on equal footing with other senior-level Federal employees and would be a valuable tool for recruiting talented attorneys ...
I would like to be more specific and ask you to describe how SSA is handling the challenge of training.
I think it is very important for the Congress to keep an eye on that so it makes a very important choice to dedicate those resources to prog...
Some of the credit for this work, I want to tell you, is due to Senator Voinovich's sustained focus on the issue.
Average Ohioans must wait 479 days for their disability claims to be processed.
As Chairman, it is my responsibility to make certain that this Committee fulfills its obligation to conduct oversight of the Department of V...