Administration of the Supplemental Security Income Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, September 8, 1975, Volume 5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 |
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Page 8 - ... Chairman and members of the committee, my name is Robert Ball and I am now a Senior Scholar at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. From April 1962 until March 1973 I was Commissioner of Social Security and prior to that served for approximately twenty years in various positions in the Social Security Administration and its predecessor organization, the Social Security Board.
Page 21 - An income source for the aged, blind and disabled whose income and resources are below a specified level; 2. Incentives and opportunities for those able to work or to be rehabilitated that will enable them to escape from their dependent situations; and 3. An efficient and economical method of providing this assistance.
Page 18 - Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Page 2 - Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin.
Page 22 - Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Aid to the Aged, Blind and Disabled.
Page 21 - SSI program's fundamental goal is to provide a basic level of income support to needy aged, blind, and disabled persons based on nationally uniform eligibility standards and payment levels. The SSI program was designed to provide: o an income source of last resort for the aged, blind, and disabled whose income and resources are below specified levels; o eligibility requirements and benefit standards that are nationally uniform, and eligibility determinations based on objective criteria; o incentives...
Page 33 - The next point I would like to make is that it seems to me that the...
Page 21 - Committee believed, however, that "the responsibility of the Federal Government in administering a State program of supplemental payments should generally be limited to administration of a basic uniform payment which does not vary according to 'special...
Page 1 - The Supplemental Security Income program for the aged, blind, and disabled is...
Page 22 - About $110 million (of the total of $460 million total savings in HR 1) relates to the aged, blind and disabled categories. According to SSA, these savings estimates would be further increased when compared with the cost of state operations using federal criteria and adding the requirements to interact with federal systems.