Social Security Act
Title XVIb — Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled1
Part B — Procedural and General Provisions
(42 U.S.C. §1383f)
(a) Not later than May
30 of each year, the Commissioner of Social Security shall prepare
and deliver a report annually to the President and the Congress
regarding the program under this title, including -
(a)(1) a comprehensive
description of the program;
(a)(2) historical
and current data on allowances and denials, including number of
applications and allowance rates for initial determinations,
reconsideration determinations, administrative law judge hearings,
appeals council reviews, and Federal court decisions;
(a)(3) historical and current
data on characteristics of recipients and program costs, by
recipient group (aged, blind, disabled adults, and disabled
children);
(a)(4) historical
and current data on prior enrollment by recipients in public
benefit programs, including State programs funded under part A of
title IV of the Social Security Act and State general assistance
programs;
(a)(5) projections of future
number of recipients and program costs, through at least 25
years;
(a)(6) number of
redeterminations and continuing disability reviews, and the
outcomes of such redeterminations and reviews;
(a)(7) data on the
utilization of work incentives;
(a)(8) detailed information
on administrative and other program operation costs;
(a)(9) summaries of relevant
research undertaken by the Social Security Administration, or by
other researchers;
(a)(10) State
supplementation program operations;
(a)(11) a historical summary
of statutory changes to this title; and
(a)(12) such other information
as the Commissioner deems useful.
(b) Each member of the
Social Security Advisory Board shall be permitted to provide an
individual report, or a joint report if agreed, of views of the
program under this title, to be included in the annual report
required under this section.
